Mweh thwip ith pweh.

Yesterday afternoon, one of my molars calved, iceberg-style. This morning,
the remains of the filling were chopped out and a new gunk-mass pounded into
place. I'm now avoiding hot drinks and those dangerously sharp teeth until
the muppet-face syndrome wears off.

Total cost? £16.48. NHS dentistry rocks.

 

More importantly, go to a decent dentist who'll use the new 'Crown
Court' anaethsthetic

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it numbs the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.


No, really. It does. It rocks, big time, when you're a dentist-wimp
like me.

 

Its cheap beacuase they get a backhander from the government when they
install the tracking devices in your teeth. Your savings will now be
consumed by tinfoil hat purchases.

 

No, NHS dentistry patches up the symptoms but masks the cause.

Did your dentist explain why your molar caved?
Did your dentist explain the long term effects of this on
your gum line and the spacing/interaction of your teeth?
Did your dentist discuss the various options available to
you and the various pros and cons of each one?
Or did your dentist just fill it and wave you on your way?

As they say: "you get what you pay for"...

 

I really like the dentist I use in my village - he does the repairs
that are needed without preaching at me at all.

As well as using the best anaethsthetic ever.

That's what people want. Has it occurred to you that making the
patient feel bad about themselves is hardly going to encourage them to
come back for the next checkup?

 

It's academic round here, anyway - there hasn't been any NHS dentistry
in this country for over 10 years. Bloody tories.

 

Champ wrote

Don't blame the Tories blame the fucking dentists. They are the ones
who have conned us into a repair rather than a preventative maintenance
deal. They should be paid like Chinese Doctors.

 

Mercury amalgam?
Did the dentist take precautions or are you a little bit
madder than the day before yesterday?

 

Bah. We just found a really good NHS dentist this year. Then they
announced that they were about to go private. The date arrives on
Monday. I've just begun to get toothache. 'Snot fair.

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Actually, it worked a treat for me as he patiently
told me exactly what was wrong and that, while not
cheap, every single ****-up made by NHS dentists
over the last 9 years could be rectified.

I've since had a titanium screw inserted into my
jaw to replace a botched extraction, which was
required when an NHS dentist drilled out the original
tooth far too much and I broke it in my sleep.

The temporary bridge has been far more effective than
anything the NHS has given me over the last decade
as it hasn't moved once since put in place, whereas
the NHS used to refix it at least twice a month with
a cheery "There you go, that's not coming out again."
every single time.

So, having been very experienced in both NHS and private
dentists in this country, I know who I would rather
pay my money to.

 

How would I know? He was wearing latex gloves, so I probably haven't caught
anything.

 

If you're looing for a good dentist, one of the contractors has found a guy
in central Gloucester by the name of Roger Moore, whom he's well impressed
with. He normally gets his teeth done in Holland...

 

I've just had 3 fillings done, £60 and half the side of my face numb.
When it wore off I had a splitting headache for the next few hours.
That will teach me to keep off the sweets.

 

My father had gum disease, so they took all his teeth out. The teeth were
okay, but the gums weren't.

They stitched up his gums with big hard stitches that hurt like ****, so he
scoffed Panadols like they were Smarties. This fucked up his liver.

Then he became diabetic. He had to be very controlled on the carbohydrate
front, but he couldn't deal too well with protein, because of the
aforementioned fucked liver.

He liked a drink or two. The doctor told him that his next drink would be
his last.

He had a little too much protein one day, and went into self-poisoning. My
mother thought he'd had a stroke, but I told her not to be stupid, and made
her call the doctor. There were drugs to control this, but one of the
potential side-effects was deafness. Fortunately, this remained merely
potential.

Over the next few years, he became thinner, more stooped, and more
depressed. When he came to my wedding in '84, he looked like he'd come from
Belsen by way of a moderately competent tailor.

A few months later, he fell over in the street, breaking his hip and arm.
He was fitted with a new hip, and was home for Christmas. Over the holiday,
his other hip gave way, and he was back in hospital for the New Year. They
fitted him with another hip. He caught pneumonia, had several heart
attacks, and died a few days later.

Both sides of my family tend to be long-lived: he'd be eighty now, and still
going strong (like his brother is), if he'd looked after his fucking teeth.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus" <>
saying something like:

Woohoo; sounds like the kind of healthcare much of my family got.

--

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"He looks in my mouth and then he starts to gloat
He says me teeth are O.K.
But my gums got to go"


http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/alicecooper/billiondollarbabies.html#5

 

I go to one.

When I moved up here I found out that the local NHS *have* to find you a
NHS dentist as part of their brief. OK it's not local about 4 miles away
but it's next to an Aldi so I have a look in there after.

 

Bugger. I meant to type "county"

This is true. When my dentist left the NHS in about 1992 (and I
discovered that any other dentists who were NHS were not taking new
patients), I wrote to my MP, and was advised that the local health
authority had a statutory duty to provide dental services - in
hosptial if necessary.

 

I haven't been to a dentist since 1995. My last one was a butchering
idiot with the worst teeth I've ever seen.

 

ogden wrote:

A dentist with bad teeth just means that *HIS* dentist is crap
so he is probably the best in the vicinity....