Tooth extraction

[TimberWolf]

Why don't people have some sense and stop going to dentists? Not been for 15 years since I twigged what an utter con it all was.

Because when you go, the dentist sows the seeds for future more expensive work and you become entrapped. I still can't eat hard things on my right side after the dentist replaced an old filling that he said was time to redo. My front two bottom teeth attract plaque like metal to a magnet after he repaired a chip there (I wonder how he did that?) and the other two fillings he performed have left the teeth with sharp edges and the fillings feel a bit funny. A sort of tingling sensation. I'm in two minds about whether to go again to ask for the painful filling to be looked at, or whether to try another dentist. Waiting for it to resolve itself for over a year doesn't appear to have worked. The 'funny' thing is he often makes 'jokes' about ruining health. Saying things like "disgustingly healthy", and "we'll soon change that" when you say things are fine

[Boudica]

Where on earth do you work? Santa's Grotto? It's October.

o thank you!!!

LOL LOL!!!


I needed a laugh today and mr prawn isn't functioning

[Lockhouse]

Why don't people have some sense and stop going to dentists? Not been for 15 years since I twigged what an utter con it all was.

Agreed. I have mine scaled every 6 months but refuse all other treatment. If I was in pain fair enough but if it 'aint broke....

[Boudica]

I need to have a tooth extracted, last time I went to a dentist in London for a filling he managed to crack the tooth and I had to have it removed. The one I now need extracting cracked a couple of months after he 'filled' it. I wonder what on earth they do to them.

[wobbegong]

I now have a golf ball in my cheek – to the point that people are looking at me asking what happened. Feeling very surreal today as we have a Christmas briefing in the atrium, so I am doped up on voltorol and codeine listening to Slade, Darkness and Bing Crosby.

Sounds suspiciously like "Team Time" at Toys-R-Us, to me.

[xoggoth]

other two fillings he performed have left the teeth with sharp edges and the fillings feel a bit funny. A sort of tingling sensation.

Exactly what I had. Felt awful for ages. The only reason I had the filling was because the hygienist knocked out the previous one.

Quite seriously, dentistry is a scam, they drill half your tooth out for a tiny bit of decay which, even if it existed at all, would clear on its own. Eventually an overdrilled tooth just falls apart, then they can charge you for a cap which soon falls apart in turn.

They tell you your gums are receeding which must be due to not brushing in the correct way without mentioning that they receed far more adjacent to amalgam fillings. It is the toxic materials that dentists put in your mouth that makes gums receed. Gawd only knows what they are doing to the rest of your body.

[SupremeSpod]

Not the most pleasant of experiences.

Went to the dentist for a filling last night – they told me quick 10 secs to extract. The darned thing broke up, took them quarter of an hour of hacking about, they managed to take out a good chunk of the bone as well.

Good for weight watching though – I am hungry but cannot eat anything – living off sipping orange juice today.

Still, had a good evening tripping on codeine.

Try giving the sweets to the kids instead. Ooops, that's what got you in trouble last time, wasn't it?

[d000hg]

Cheer up, it's not as bad as listening to Chris Moyles.

I'd rather listen to ANY DJ than have a dentist put his junk in my mouth.

[gingerjedi]

I went for a check up this morning, when the dentist realised I didn't have to pay she recommended I have x-rays and a polish too.

[EternalOptimist]

I went out with a lady dentist from Liverpool, a few years ago called Queenie.
She had the nicest set of teeth I've ever come across