I should probably add "teeth" to my interests

[sistermagpie]

Happy birthday ginzai!!! I wish you a little stalker Tim Drake of your own just for the day.:-D

I went to the dentist today to get a filling. Instead, the dentist told me I needed two. Then told me to make an appointment (3 months from now) to get the fillings. And to buy yet another rinsing thing.

I've had tooth problems all my life. This is the first dentist I've ever known who didn't fill cavities when s/he found them. The receptionists' prime directive seems to be to keep people from getting their teeth fixed as long as possible.

Note to self: Find new dentist in dental plan tomorrow. Be sure to make sure new dentist fills teeth.

Comments

[kind-strangers.livejournal.com]

At least it's not as bad as Japanese dentistry. When I broke a tooth they didn't take any kind of medical history before sticking a needle in my mouth. The work was done quickly but not perfectly. My friends who had fillings done usually had to make 3 appointments for each filling.

[ginzai.livejournal.com]

*g* I think everyone should have an ickle stalker!Tim on their birthday. The addition makes things ever so much better. And dentists? They suck. Muchly. Or at least the one that I went to last time did. I don't know... I'm like you in that respect. If there are fillings to be done, then they should be done when discovered and thus not make people miss two (or three!) days of work to get it all sussed out. -_-;

[samaranth.livejournal.com]

Three months!!!!!

Find another dentist, oh yes. It's not just the inconvenience - teeth that need fillings hurt!. They should be filled much sooner, rather than later.

[arclevel.livejournal.com]

The family dentist when I was a kid would always have you stay longer and fill the teeth. Then my parents decided he wasn't doing a good job, so we switched to a larger practice where, among other things, you had to schedule a new appt for fillings; generally your first option was in about a week. When I was getting my teeth cleaned while home from college, which was a 10-hour drive, this meant that I generally went ridiculously long to get them filled. Not that I really minded. Every time that dentist filled a tooth, it never hurt before he filled it but hurt to chew on for weeks afterward. Needless to say, I don't go there anymore.

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. Oh boy, do I. I've had dental problems all my life and I really do try to take good care of my teeth, even have one of those fancy sonicare toothbrushes. I just have thin enamel, something I've inherited from my mother.

I just had to have a cracked filling replaced with a crown - a nice $700 bill (I do have dental insurance, thank god) and I had a root canal last year and various other problems: pulled teeth, bridges, filling, etc. Sometimes I think I'm putting my dentist's kids through college.

And did I mention that I have a pathological fear of dentists? Gee, I wonder why.

Yeah, I would think that you would want to have those cavities filled right away. You wouldn't want to have a root canal done on those.

[petitesoeur.livejournal.com]

going to the dentist has become a very complicated, expensive and time consuming business at best -- yours sound worst -- find a new one

[millefiori.livejournal.com]

Oh, man--I can't believe they have a three month wait! Their practice is either too busy to accomodate you or (paranoid dentophobic thought) they're deliberately lengthening the wait time so as to allow decay to spread--more surface to fill means more $$ to charge.

I suppose I can see rescheduling if they'd only booked time for one filling, but could do both with one numbing shot, you know? But I'd expect a new appointment within a week, two at the most!

[kearie.livejournal.com]

You should definitely find a new dentist! If you wait to long to get a filling you might need a root canal, and that's the epitome of no fun...

[(Anonymous)]

This is probably a dumb question, but do you have sealant on your teeth? If not, it might be worth investigating with the new dentist (speaking as someone who had years of teeth problems, beginning from the high doses of phenobarbital they gave me as an wee un (I stopped taking it a week before the FDA pulled it), then moving into the "shark teeth" phenomonen of having the permanent teeth come in behind the baby teeth and thus requiring 8 teeth pulled in kindergarten and then, for some bizarre reason, having none of my baby teeth become loose, requiring them ALL to be pulled over the following eight years. The only plus was that the tooth fairy "felt sorry" for me, and so I generally scored a paperback book with a dollar inside, and at least one afternoon off from school. Also, I still get to see my speciality "pediatric" dentist at the age of 23.

Anyway. A sealant is probably worth the investment if you have chronic problems.