My Dentist the Friendly Assassin

[martint235]

My brother would be horrified to read these stories.

He qualified a few years back, and spent a fair amount of time in the Dental Hospital and a local hospital post qualifying to gain extra experience. He then went into practice, but he sticks to the NHS rules, and never ever recommends additional rip off treatment. He has even done work in Africa, so called holiday, he paid to go, which meant three weeks field work and a few days off.

Keeping your teeth clean goes a long way, and I can recommend the electric tooth brushes, my brother buys us the top of the range ones for birthdays.... He gets them trade price.

There are some good ones out there. My current one for example plays by the rules, is friendly, is willing to discuss options etc.

FWIW, someone mentioned further up about being removed from the list. I think in the contract that brought in the 3 bands, that the lists thing was rendered null. As far as I'm aware a dentist now either does or doesn't do NHS, if he does then he has to accept patients. The one I have now, I couldn't get anywhere near 7-8 years ago. Rang him last year and it was "Certainly. We just need to do a checkup".

 

[postman]

Postman is waitng for 6-45 tonight.He is down for an emergency extraction,he got toothache early last week,tried to ride it out,but by thursday the pain was too much,he rang his nhs dentist but was told next available slot 31st Jan.So he has been taking pain killers like smarties until 17-00 last night when it goit too much.He googled nhs dentists and after a few checks he got lucky,very lucky.For the sum of £17-50 he can have his tooth whipped out.At an out of hours service.This is the same tooth that on the 20th Dec said nhs dentist filled,i should have had it out then.Nothing is worth saving when it has already had a filling from years ago,the pain is not worth it.I have not gone to church today because of the pain and my long face.