I found a very local NHS dentist who fixed a broken filling for me for very little cash, but I left his surgery actually feeling he hadn't done enough work in there (I can feel, clearly, the fissure between the patched-up filling and the body of the tooth, and if that isn't a bacterial pleasure palace I don't know what is), which is entirely unlike my reaction to my previous, private dentists, who fucked my mouth about at enormous expense and caused problems for years where there had been none before.
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I won't be going back to Kennington then. (The missus has just registered at one in Crystal Palace - they actually put a leaflet through our door courting our registration! NHS shortages a media myth, blah blah blah).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
You can put your name on a dentist's list in the same way that you can register with a family doctor (GP). Find a dentist, ring them to check they offer NHS treatment and ask to put your name on their list.
Some dentists will only register you as a patient after an initial examination. When you visit the surgery you should remind them that you want to be registered as an NHS patient.
Your period of registration will last for 15 months. If, after registering with an NHS dentist you have not made an appointment within 15 months, your registration will no longer be valid and you will have to register again.
If you see your dentist regularly, you will not need to do this.
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, same here! Have gone every six months since I was able to remember things at four or whatever, will be going in a couple more weeks. My dentists always say I've done a very good job with my teeth, with the exception alas of two small cavities I got back in 1984. Otherwise, smooth sailing. And my wisdom teeth came out in one piece and with no fuss. I love me.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
this makes me feel rotten.
i never had dental issues as a kid, not one cavity, and then about age 15 all of the sudden they would find new ones all the time, which i find very odd becuase it seems as though i take better care of my teeth now than when i was seven. anyway, i have insurance, but i haven't made an appt yet, i think because i'm secretly afriad. also, i don't want to pay the deductible and copay for a filling.
― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I need to go, but I have hated every dentist that I've ever gone to. When I take my car to the mechanic, he doesn't give me a hard time because it's been years since I've gone. No, he just fixes the damn thing. Dentists, in my experience, just want to throw a guilt-trip over you before taking a thousand x-rays for no reason at all.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell (Nowell), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
i didn't find that to be the case when i was a kid.
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
what's up with all you dental slackers??
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
This same doctor slapped my cousin once because he thought she was being a bit too hysterical. Never mind the fact that he TORTURED KIDS AND CHARGED THEIR PARENTS FOR IT.
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
no dental insurance!
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Fuck American health care
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i hadn't gone in 10 years and i went over xmas. i was told that i was RUINING MY GUMS because i brushed INCORRECTLY! i have been going side-to-side for my entire life. the dentist was like NO NO NO AAAAGGGH NO. brush in the direction your teeth grow he said. he said "be gentle." i was, apprently, brushing my gums into oblivion. i should probably floss too huh, i said. "just the ones you want to keep." i remembered hearing the same line from him, 10 years earlier. and i still had them all! HA.
anyway, i have decay on two teeth, but they're my wisdom teeth and he said i should get em yanked soon anyway, so he didn't bother doing anything to them.
i reported all this to my dentist friend who lives in glasgow. he had a somewhat glaswegian attitude, i guess. he emailed back: "why did you go to the dentist? were you in pain?"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
One dentist said to me once, "You don't wash your hands until they bleed, do you? Then why do that to your gums?" Makes sense, I guess.
I'm going in on Thursday for my first appointment since the Clinton administration. Never been to this guy before. If he recommends braces, I'll be excusing myself once more.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
yes, too much of the former, plus genetics, led to gum surgery for me. never had a filling, though.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
(well, I assume - I was 17 and had an NHS dentist anyway when mine were pulled)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
That sounds pretty awesome in general. I wish I could do it without having/needing surgery.
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Is this plausible? Also my dentist reminded me of Dr. Nick and had huge snot stalagmites in both nostrils. :((((
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I've had root canal work, 6 fillings, hygienist cleaning, the works - all with NO pain
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
no trouble but I will try to not not go for that long, again
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
my grandma had all her teeth taken out as a 30th birthday present.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link