Huzzah for dentists!

[Andrew_Culture]

Last week I was tootlin' along the A14 (in a car) and realised the softmint I was merrily chewing appeared to have a something decidedly un-soft in it. An exploratory tongue sweep of my pie-hole revealed that most dreaded of oral discoveries - a sharp tooth. Yup, I'd bust a filling. I called in at my dentists on the way home and got myself an emergency appointment. I could breath without the sensation that a javelin was protruding from my face so I figured the damage couldn't be too bad...

This morning I bimbled along to my dentists and he took some photos of my tooth, for me to look at, not for his family album, or the wall like in that song by the Beatles about the lad in Penny Lane who kept photos of heads he had known... I was then offered three options; a crown, a new filling or some stuff to fill the 'ole. No injections, no nonsense, and Fraiser was the ceiling telling with subtitles.

So here I am, £80 lighter of pocket but a whole lot more toothsome. Grand.

 

[tyred]

[QUOTE 2881995, member: 259"]Araldite doesn't come cheap does it? [/quote]

For only £80, it's probably just car body fillers or glazier's putty.

 

[I like Skol]

If you don't want the rest of those Softmints you could send them to me I haven't had any of those in years....

 

[steve52]

after years with a trublesome /painfull tooth or two that have cost me a total of £600 i had them out much to my dentists dismay. im pain free hes lost income, and the cause of the pain was a hole in the root.

 

[Leaway2]

I never understand why my national health treatment costs so much. I thought I had already paid for the treatment over the last 38 years.

 

[vickster]

You pay towards the cost with dentistry unless you are one of the many who get free treatment,, same as prescription charges

I need an implant ideally...2k

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I never understand why my national health treatment costs so much. I thought I had already paid for the treatment over the last 38 years.

My dentist went private and moved practice, I didn't go for years but an emergency appointment with the worst dentist in the world ever convinced me it was worth paying for private.

 

[Dangermouse]

I have a front tooth missing (lorry 1 Pete 0) but refuse to pay for an implant.............anyway it makes me look mean, not the softie that I really am

 

[welsh dragon]

I have a front tooth missing (lorry 1 Pete 0) but refuse to pay for an implant.............anyway it makes me look mean, not the softie that I really am

 

[Fnaar]

Good names for dentists: Phil McCavity

 

[tyred]

I have a front tooth missing (lorry 1 Pete 0) but refuse to pay for an implant.............anyway it makes me look mean, not the softie that I really am

Hello Jimmy Tarbuck.

 

[e-rider]

You pay towards the cost with dentistry unless you are one of the many who get free treatment,, same as prescription charges

I need an implant ideally...2k

£2K plus high risks of nerve damage when placing the implant - consider that one really carefully! If you can live without it then don't do it.

 

[vickster]

Dentist didn't mention any risks. He did say a CT scan may be necessary however to check the anatomy. Are you a dentist?

I will have to do something or it leaves the teeth around at high risk

I can't crown the tooth easily as a previous dentist fubar'ed the root

 

[roadrash]

when i was 21 (now 48) i woke one morning with an enormous swelling to the right of my face, no pain at all ,off to the docs who sent me to A+E , cue one antibiotic in the jacksie, went home and fell asleep.
woke up 2 hours later , hmm something not right here, tried to stand up , i had no balance at all , my face was even more swelled than before only now on both sides, back to A+E, admitted, antibiotic injection every hour for twelve hours.
next morning hospital dentist comes to see me and tells me i need op to remove 6 teeth, 6 teeth my arse i woke the next morning with 58 STITCHES, NO FEKIN TEETH AT ALL AND A BRUISED CHEST WHERE HE HAD HIS KNEE PULLING THE BASTARDS OUT.
apparently he had rung my mother during the op and explained to her they all had to go ,pyorrhea and septosemia,
prior to that i had one crown ,

i didnt even find any money under my pillow

 

[roadrash]

oh yeah , and the bastards brought me cornflakes for breakfast