Dental interrogation

[Steve Maskery]

3 months ago I broke a tooth. It was a molar that was more technology than biology to start with. So I went to find a local dentist.

I walked in and made an appointment and was then met by a very stern Eastern European lady. Romanian or Latvian, I forget which. Very attractive, but she sounds like a cross between Minka from Hut 33 and Nali from Clare in the Community, for you R4 aficionados.

I immediately felt intimidated.

"You are new."

"Er, yes." I felt a bit guilty.

"When you last see dentist?"

"Er, about 6 years ago." I felt guilty

"Sit."

I obeyed. The lights were bright, but I had my sunglasses with me. I wore them instead of the goggles she offered.

"Your teeth are in quite good condition, considering." The guilt eased off for a moment. "Come back for treatment." I did as I was told.

She did a very good job of rebuilding the tooth and once it had weathered a bit it felt normal. She insisted I came back in 3 months to see how it was getting on.

So this morning I was there just before 9am.

"Sit." I did so. I put my sunglasses on as defence against the bright light.

"Ah. I remember. You come prepared." It was an accusation.

She poked about a bit.

"Do you use mouthwash?"
"Er, no."

I felt guilty.

"Do you floss?"
"Er not unless I have to, I don't like the feel of it between my teeth".

I felt more guilty.

"Hmm."

I felt guilty again.

"Have you changed your toothbrush?"

"Erm. Not recently, it's about due I suppose. I do change it when it feels worn out, though... I do use an electric toothbrush", I offered, hoping to escape eternal damnation.

"Ah!", she said. "Your teeth are very good. There is no plaque. They are better than last time. There is no work for me to do. Come back in six months."

I won't dare to disobey.

I still feel very guilty indeed.

 

[Lons]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

It's even scarier when your dentist is your mum.

 

[artie]

Mine just retired, looking forward to meeting the new 30 something replacement.

Both female btw.

 

[rafezetter]

My dentist is a Pole - who is also quite brusque, but not in an unfriendly way, he is mid 30's I would say and by far the best regular dentist I have ever had, my last english dentist by comparison; a guy in his late 40's or early 50's, gave me a root canal on a molar 2 years or so ago and drilled right through the bottom of my tooth according to my current one when the molar developed an abcess underneath the tooth.

If that is the level of dentistry standards in poland I can see why more people are flying out there for expensive work like implants that are 50% cheaper than the UK.

 

[MartinCox]

I broke a tooth in a rugby match and needed it taking out. Unfortunately, I broke my leg (same leg as before) in the same incident and so had a long plaster. The dentist was on the first floor so had to get up the stairs by reversing up on my are. The dentist did such a job that I had to go to hospital that night with a haemorrhage.

That was 25 years ago and I haven't been back to any dentist since. On the basis that my teeth don't hurt, don't fall out, I don't see why I should. My wife goes every 6 months and has (expensive) work done each time. Now I'm prepared to accept that I'm lucky and have good teeth and her indoors is unlucky. However, I believe that many private dentists (and others such physiotherapists) generate Income by making work where none exists. Leave the teeth alone and you may not need a dentist. Not something I would want to preach to my grandchildren but that also applies to several other things I have done

 

[ColeyS1]

I broke a tooth in a rugby match and needed it taking out. Unfortunately, I broke my leg (same leg as before) in the same incident and so had a long plaster. The dentist was on the first floor so had to get up the stairs by reversing up on my are. The dentist did such a job that I had to go to hospital that night with a haemorrhage.

That was 25 years ago and I haven't been back to any dentist since. On the basis that my teeth don't hurt, don't fall out, I don't see why I should. My wife goes every 6 months and has (expensive) work done each time. Now I'm prepared to accept that I'm lucky and have good teeth and her indoors is unlucky. However, I believe that many private dentists (and others such physiotherapists) generate Income by making work where none exists. Leave the teeth alone and you may not need a dentist. Not something I would want to preach to my grandchildren but that also applies to several other things I have done

I recently had a filling and the following day the receptionist rang up to check everything was o.k. I thought that was quite thoughtfull,I'll Google my dentists name cause others may have reviewed how great the dentist is - turns out she'd been in the papers for doing unnecessary work, I haven't been back since !!

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[lurker]

I had a bit of pain on a tooth so I thought I had better get it Seen to before it got worse.
Dentist said it was fine, I said it was a sharp pain when I bit on it.
He said it's ok and I don't do work unnecessarily , just chew on the other side, now sod off!
It does occasionally hurt but for a fraction of a second and it's not getting worse so he was clearly correct.

Still cost me 20 quid for less than 5 mins though.

 

[RogerS]

My dentist is drop-dead gorgeous. She has the most beautiful brown limpid eyes that a man could drown in. Trouble is I keep falling asleep in the chair while all the drilling is going on.