Rune
02-07-2003, 09:00 PM
Apologies in advance for boring everyone but its 1.45am and I just have to gripe about this or I'll never sleep tonight ...
Anyone else have 'nuisance' teeth? Mine are not user-friendly, never have been despite being dragged - literally - to the dentist every 3 months as a kid from the age s of 5 to 16.
I had an appointment with my dentist today and have come back with mixed feelings ... first thing she tells me I could do with having a lot of work done, a mouthful of crowns, replacement veneers, earthmoving equipment etc which is going to cost a lot of money ... second she says I have a 'mismatched mouth' ie half the teeth are perfect while the other half are more or less held together with unibond and luck, and says obviously I went for years without seeing a dentist when I was little.
But that's not true, and I told her, like I said above that my mom forced me to go every 3 months on the dentist's recommendation ... it didn't take too long before we both came to the conclusion that I'd had a 'crooked dentist' (ie he did unecessary work just so that he could claim money for it as dental treatment for kids in the Uk is paid for by the government's national health service). Thinking back I know I never got out of that chair without a mouthful of local anaesthetic and another tooth plugged with amalgam despite never experiencing a single moments trouble between visits, no pain nothing. Then throughout my teens and 20s I've had endless problems with bits snapping off the teeth that have been filled again n again and they've hurt too.
After what I learned/realised today its made me feel pretty angry, he was an old guy anyway and is long gone now but this legacy he's left me is still a fact (oops that sounds a bit over-dramatic but you know what I mean) it just makes me wonder if anyone else has experienced anything like this? My dentist now is fantastic and I've no complaints about her at all but I can't help but wonder if, like my husband I'd only been taken to the dentist a handful of times as a kid I'd have a lot more to smile about ... I guess its just the luck of the draw?
The final irony is that the parents who forced me to go all those countless times 'for my own good' have not been to the dentist themselves in over 40 years and their teeth give them no trouble at all.
I have a 2 hr appointent on 17 March *shivers* wish me luck and again sorry for droning on
Anyone else have 'nuisance' teeth? Mine are not user-friendly, never have been despite being dragged - literally - to the dentist every 3 months as a kid from the age s of 5 to 16.
I had an appointment with my dentist today and have come back with mixed feelings ... first thing she tells me I could do with having a lot of work done, a mouthful of crowns, replacement veneers, earthmoving equipment etc which is going to cost a lot of money ... second she says I have a 'mismatched mouth' ie half the teeth are perfect while the other half are more or less held together with unibond and luck, and says obviously I went for years without seeing a dentist when I was little.
But that's not true, and I told her, like I said above that my mom forced me to go every 3 months on the dentist's recommendation ... it didn't take too long before we both came to the conclusion that I'd had a 'crooked dentist' (ie he did unecessary work just so that he could claim money for it as dental treatment for kids in the Uk is paid for by the government's national health service). Thinking back I know I never got out of that chair without a mouthful of local anaesthetic and another tooth plugged with amalgam despite never experiencing a single moments trouble between visits, no pain nothing. Then throughout my teens and 20s I've had endless problems with bits snapping off the teeth that have been filled again n again and they've hurt too.
After what I learned/realised today its made me feel pretty angry, he was an old guy anyway and is long gone now but this legacy he's left me is still a fact (oops that sounds a bit over-dramatic but you know what I mean) it just makes me wonder if anyone else has experienced anything like this? My dentist now is fantastic and I've no complaints about her at all but I can't help but wonder if, like my husband I'd only been taken to the dentist a handful of times as a kid I'd have a lot more to smile about ... I guess its just the luck of the draw?
The final irony is that the parents who forced me to go all those countless times 'for my own good' have not been to the dentist themselves in over 40 years and their teeth give them no trouble at all.
I have a 2 hr appointent on 17 March *shivers* wish me luck and again sorry for droning on