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Originally Posted by DrOctagon
Again, good luck with things, Mike. I hope you start feeling better soon.
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Cheers Dr.O and likewise to you, hope things heal up nicely mate.
I travelled 60 miles to my old dentist this morning in the hope that he would take pity on me and fit me in and he did!
This guy is a brilliant dentist and the only reason I shifted over to my current "dentist" is he is only 3 miles away as opposed to 60 miles away.. anyway I digress.....
I pointed to the tooth that was giving me the grief and he tapped it with a metal instrument... no pain..... he tapped the surrounding teeth and again.... no pain. He then took an X-Ray with a very cool new X-Ray system he's now got.... this yellow thing goes in your mouth and his machine takes the X-Ray.. there's an overhead LCD panel the patient can see and he has his own LCD panel... well he blows the pic up and draws a circle around an area of the X-Ray and says "there's the problem" Turns out the area between the roots is badly infected which is what's been causing all the pain.. apparantly the tooth is in great shape..... so he turns off the X-ray screen and a surround sound film appears on the screen! (way cool!!) He apparantly watches movies and puts them on pause when he's viewing the X-rays (the patients love watching films when they're being worked on he reckons
) This guy is like totally clued up and professional unlike the country bumpkin that's been screwing about with my mouth the past couple of years.
He prescribed 150mg Clindamycin tabs 4 times daily and you know what..... I swallowed two of them in the chemist and the pain was gone two hours later... now that's what I call a decent antibiotic! Anyways, he agreed to take me back on as a patient so I'm back in two weeks time to get a full mouth X-Ray and take it from there..... That guy has made my day!!
Got home, feeling elated and free of pain, and phoned up the dentist (butcher) who has been arsing around with my mouth and told the receptionist I wanted to cancel my appointment with him in two weeks time as I've now got a new dentist..... hah! the bloody cheek of it... she says "you can't register with another dentist without un-registering from us first" I said "I'm sorry I didn't realise I was registered with a dentist... going by the suffering I've endured I assumed I was registered with a sado masochist" I really let rip on this poor girl as I'm a great believer in letting people know what I think of their services.... I just hope that what I said got back to the dentist
Once I'd finished my phone rant she tells me she will send the bill out and says she's sorry I feel this way blah blah blah.... I reply to the effect "BILL??? You think I'm going to pay to be tortured???" she replies "£*** is outstanding on your account and if you don't pay within 14 days a fee will be charged on top" I told her that if I receive a bill through my letterbox I will A: insert it into a very large marrow and visit the dentist and ram it up his arse. B: I will sue him for 6 months of suffering, weight loss, anxiety, pain and anything else I can think of.
Heh, not the most "adult" telephone convo but boy I feel better for it
I've been firing on two cylinders for ages thanks to this prick butchering my mouth..... It's all very well charging for a service if the customer gets satisfaction but to expect me to
pay for months of suffering which has sapped my strength and energy and made my life a misery....... NO WAY!
These charlatans think they are above the law and, in most cases they are, but starve them of money and complain and kick up a stink and they'll hopefully get the message.
Mike.
PS: sod "Live8" what about "Dental8"?
) Works well in my case...
