Re: OT dentists are just like car mechanics! (finally got teeth cleaned)
- From: Trinkwasser <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:28:11 +0000
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:27:37 +1100, "hemyd"
<myd!!!hen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My experiences with dentisits are also somewhat less than edifying.
A decade ago, having what turned out a sinus problem but manifested itself
as a toothace, I went to a dentist to have it checked out. The obliging
dentists said that yes, the tooth needed extracting, which he did for a fee.
Needless to say, this did not resolve the toothace, as the problem was sinus
related.
My family used to go to one of these "nice people", a dentist named
"Freddy", lovely with kids. Yes, he was a lovely man - until his wife had
twins. Then, on a routine checkup, he suggested I needed a root canal
operation. I asked him for details of the cost. After the first few thousand
dollars he mentioned I told him "stop right there" and advised him I'd let
him know when I needed such an operation. "You might be sorry later on" he
suggested. (It's now ten years later, and I've still had no problems).
Later, the rest of my family became as disillusioned with Freddy as I was,
and found another "good" dentist - good for a while, of course.
Hey I had him too!
Only mine was still doing NHS work, but he knew they were about to go
private.
He told me I needed all my fillings digging out and redoing, plus I
needed a wisdom tooth extracting. yeah like that was going to happen
two days before my wedding! Like an eejit I let him do one quarter of
my mouth and left the rest for later.
I was in desperate pain from an abcess under one tooth and one of my
work colleagues recommended a different guy.
Talk about chalk and cheese! He inspected my teeth very carefully,
told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with any of my current
fillings, and the wisdom tooth did NOT need extracting as the problem
was under the adjacent tooth.
The only problems he found were with the previous guy's work, he had
dug out my old fillings and refilled the teeth without using a
sedative lining, then left the tops of the fillings standing proud of
the teeth.
He tutted and grumbled as he replaced all the defective fillings, and
went ballistic when he discovered the guy had punched a hole right
through the tooth which necessitated a root canal to fix (that was the
cause of the abcess).
We decided the previous incumbent had decided to wreck my teeth on the
NHS so he could subsequently repair them privately.
Over the next ten years or so he needed to redo *one* filling, repair
another tooth and veneer another. None of the "urgent" work the
previous guy listed needed doing at all ever. He also had to give up
NHS work due to the low quality he was expected to adhere to but
strangely he worked out no more expensive because he only did work
that *needed* doing and did it to a high standard such that it lasted.
My current guy, and the one I had in between after he retired, were
all quality workers.
We had a comedy show here many years ago. here's an excerpt:
Dentist looking into a patient's mouth: "open wide"
"aaah, I see a villa in there"
"yes, a villa and an overseas trip"
"also a yacht....."
etc. etc.
That's about the size of it. :(
.
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