Dentists - Are they worth the money?

[zara_backdog]

Sorry, it wore out!!

Ps - the surgery I worked at was next door to a brothel - I did get stoped a couple of times walking up the road after a late nigh surgery - once by a copper asking what I was doing.

Stange - still get strange men asking what I charge by the hour.......

[darmstadt]

Most Eurpean dentists use the 'air gun' injection which is far less painless - there are some overhere must most like to give the good old needle, however after root canal work there is no nerve so you should not need one. topical anaesthetic to numb the gum

Tell that to mine. I had 3 root canals done at the start of the year. The first visit required 3 injections and come the second she started without but not all the nerve was dead which required another 2.

BTW, I used to live in a house which used to be a brothel which was handy getting the taxi home when pissed, just say the Blaue Eck and they knew exactly where to go

[Xenophon]

Stange - still get strange men asking what I charge by the hour.......

...and how much is it out of interest?

[xoggoth]

Dentists create their own work. I would not have anything wrong with my teeth if it wasn't for the ones completely wrecked by huge fillings for tiny little cavities that probably would have healed anyway.

[sappatz]

sugar

avoid sodas (the worst for your teeth : acid + sugar) and candies/sugary stuff, brush your teeth and no more need to enrich dentists
apparently many can not understand this

[Paddy]

Anyone here use a foreign tooth-doctor?

PM me if you want details. I use a dentist in Prague. Half price UK (pound is week it was 1/5 price) but much better treatment more like Harley Street quality. The dentist makes UK dentistry look like stone age dentistry. He spent a great deal of time rectifying the mess that various dentists had made with my teeth over the years. Aesthetic is painless and he does not rush his work. In the UK they jab you and start drilling immediately and then use cheap fillings that don’t last.

[TimberWolf]

In the UK they jab you and start drilling immediately and then use cheap fillings that don’t last.

I can (v)ouch for that.

[PAH]

I can (v)ouch for that.

So can I. Had a root canal about a year ago and it feels like it needs redoing. I'm sure he used a bit of old choddy off the floor for the filling.

Going to sack him off, and send him a copy of Driller Killer as a leaving present, overdubbed with various choice phrases at key moments in the film. I don't think I can get into much bother for doing that can I?

[Lockhouse]

Hang on; I go private and have just taken out by Tescos Dental Insurance for £20 per month which is the cost of 2 checkups per year and 80% towards all private treatment. Would I be better off going with Denplan?