Dentistry

[Wrath of Foamy]

I'm an absolute idiot regarding these things, but I need a bit of advice.

Years ago, my missus had a briefcase slammed into her mouth that knocked several of her teeth loose. Some were removed and replaced with these partial denture things.

She came to me yesterday evening evening saying that her teeth were in agony, so, as it's the weekend, I quickly looked up a load emergency dentist and helped her call up and book an appointment for today.

Anyway, she just called me saying that she has never been in so much pain, that he was yanking like a madman, that her extracted teeth were covered in blood and that she cancelled the third tooth removal because of the pain and horror of it all. She was choking on her own blood and he told her to swallow it. She was told that she has an infection and needs three teeth in total to be removed.

Firstly, I feel sorry for her and I hate not being there for her, as I'm at work. I also think that the problematic removal and the look of the extracted tooth raises suspicion. Her previous extractions didn't look anything like that, or were half as difficult or as painful to remove.

She has been charged £820, half price because she refused to pay the original price, and has painkillers and antibiotics to take for two weeks. He wants her back to complete the job, but I asked her to contact her original dentist on Monday.

Shit situation, but am I right to be suspicious? Have I given the wrong advice in telling her to see an emergency dentist instead of waiting for Monday to try and book something with her existing dentist?

Bugger.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Years ago, my missus had a briefcase slammed into her mouth that knocked several of her teeth loose.

 

[William Huggins]

Get some very strong pain killers next time and wait it out and see a dentist you can trust..... Get your dentist to contact the dentist that did the work and go from there.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

This "dentist" sounds very suspect. I've spent a lot of time in dentist chairs over the years for root canals, extractions, implants, crowns, cavities, braces, bridges. And my comfort was always of the UTMOST importance to the dentist or oral surgeon. Swallow your own blood? WTF is that??? Never heard of such a thing. Do not go back to this idiot.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Get some very strong pain killers next time and wait it out and see a dentist you can trust..... Get your dentist to contact the dentist that did the work and go from there.

Well she was swallowing a load of over the counter penicillin and wasn't eating at all, so I took it as an emergency. I'm hoping that her pain will be relieved now that her most problematic tooth is gone, but the entire thing seems barbaric. I'm waiting on Monday to get her to call the dentist that did her previous procedures. Apparently they were a cakewalk compared to this.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

This "dentist" sounds very suspect. I've spent a lot of time in dentist chairs over the years for root canals, extractions, implants, crowns, cavities, braces, bridges. And my comfort was always of the UTMOST importance to the dentist or oral surgeon. Swallow your own blood? WTF is that??? Never heard of such a thing. Do not go back to this idiot.

It sounds mad to me. The practitioners were the top search in Google and were reviewed very well, but the entire thing sounded horrible.

We are going to do what Huggins said. Contact her personal dentist on Monday and get them to liaise with the one who did the procedure. Infections are very serious, but I'm just hoping that teeth weren't pulled that shouldn't have been. It sounded like the two teeth that were pulled were still quite healthy.

 

[Damo321]

As a practicing dentist with years of both cosmetic and surgical dentistry I am probably best placed to offer you advice on this one………in order to do this though I will need you to send me some pics of your wife with her mouth wide open whilst holding both her tits up towards her chin

 

[M4rk]

As a practicing dentist with years of both cosmetic and surgical dentistry I am probably best placed to offer you advice on this one………in order to do this though I will need you to send me some pics of your wife with her mouth wide open whilst holding both her tits up towards her chin

As a non practising dentist (i got eaten by a giant plant called Audrey 2) and i used to shoot puppies with a BB gun. His advice is sound!

 

[Spam On Rye]

Found out years ago the dentist I saw for about 20 years got busted for being a kid diddler. He put his hands in my mouth for 20 years. Chew on that ts.

 

[MDoza]

In my experience, if you go to any “emergency” medical service, you should expect to pay twice as much for half of the quality. It’s just the cost of being seen immediately.

Emergency places usually cut corners to speed up procedures and keep expenses down. So maybe a normal doctor would have used more pain management and taken more time to remove the teeth to maximize comfort, but they wouldn’t have been able to schedule you until 2 weeks (or months) from now.

 

[nonoob]

She was told that she has an infection and needs three teeth in total to be removed

MAJOR red flag, infection, and not curing it Before pulling?

Do not go back to this idiot, and Please file a report.​

This "dentist" sounds very suspect. I've spent a lot of time in dentist chairs over the years for root canals, extractions, implants, crowns, cavities, braces, bridges. And my comfort was always of the UTMOST importance to the dentist or oral surgeon. Swallow your own blood? WTF is that??? Never heard of such a thing. Do not go back to this idiot.

IMHO, if this was done to MY woman, that clown would have been lucky he didn't receive teh jab or multiple upper cuts.

Been through YEARS of dental issues with NONE of that drama.

If you feel pain when a tooth is being pulled, not enough Novacaine/sp? was used. STOP the pulling process until mouth is properly numbed!

 

[Patrick Jane]

Shouldn't the dentist give her ... like ... a local anaesthetic or something when pulling teeth? My dentist once injected in the wrong spot before a root canal and started tearing my nerve endings out while i still felt it. That was pretty painful, lol

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

MAJOR red flag, infection, and not curing it Before pulling?

Do not go back to this idiot, and Please file a report.​

IMHO, if this was done to MY woman, that clown would have been lucky he didn't receive teh jab or multiple upper cuts.

Been through YEARS of dental issues with NONE of that drama.

If you feel pain when a tooth is being pulled, not enough Novacaine/sp? was used. STOP the pulling process until mouth is properly numbed!

I've taken all of this to heart and I'll bring it to my missus attention when she wakes up. She's out like a light right now.

I'll file a report depending on what the second opinion is of her usual dentist.

Thanks all.

 

[GSP_37]

Swallow it? It's blood, not semen. Any dentist should have some suction tube to stick in the mouth. Seems like a quack dentist, maybe not even licensed.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

She's really suffered over the years because of this.

Her regular dentist had to take out twelve teeth because of the strike with the briefcase.

Damage to self-esteem and issues when eating aside, getting the dentures, which weren't exactly perfect in themselves, plus having the teeth pulled, cost her £3,000, and she was off work for about two months.

Now? She had to pay £820 for two teeth, and I won't be surprised if she has to get more teeth pulled and a new set, for another few thousand. She makes £20,000 per annum, her little savings, completely wiped again.

Her old company were bastards. They didn't escalate the situation initially, and destroyed her record of the incident when the new company took over, so she had to pay it all.

I find it to be madness that the NHS won't pay at least something for this. You can get support for body issues but for some reason, teeth are ignored. You can get help with teeth if you make nothing or pennies, or if you are on pension credit, but for a low wage, full-time worker? You are outright fucked. Why? The mouth is a vital part of the body and so are teeth. When something goes wrong with teeth, people are in agony, they cannot eat or sleep or function. It's utterly bizarre and a load of shit.

The rich get BUPA, the unemployed get the NHS, the working class get screwed.

 

[GSP_37]

Local dentist has TV commercials re: tiny implants. No idea how the teeth attach to the posts that are somehow attached to the bone.

Some senior citizen had dental implants that costed maybe $17k.

 

[fingercuffs]

She's really suffered over the years because of this.

Her regular dentist had to take out twelve teeth because of the strike with the briefcase.

Damage to self-esteem and issues when eating aside, getting the dentures, which weren't exactly perfect in themselves, plus having the teeth pulled, cost her £3,000, and she was off work for about two months.

Now? She had to pay £820 for two teeth, and I won't be surprised if she has to get more teeth pulled and a new set, for another few thousand. She makes £20,000 per annum, her little savings, completely wiped again.

Her old company were bastards. They didn't escalate the situation initially, and destroyed her record of the incident when the new company took over, so she had to pay it all.

I find it to be madness that the NHS won't pay at least something for this. You can get support for body issues but for some reason, teeth are ignored. You can get help with teeth if you make nothing or pennies, or if you are on pension credit, but for a low wage, full-time worker? You are outright fucked. Why? The mouth is a vital part of the body and so are teeth. When something goes wrong with teeth, people are in agony, they cannot eat or sleep or function. It's utterly bizarre and a load of shit.

The rich get BUPA, the unemployed get the NHS, the working class get screwed.

This is fucking horrendous. Can she get the police involved even though the briefcase assault was a while ago?

 

[Berserker13]

kratom

 

[eddymotto]

1. I am really saddened that your wife has gone through this.

2. I would recommend avoiding British dentists in general. Splurge and take her to a country where people have good teeth.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

This is fucking horrendous. Can she get the police involved even though the briefcase assault was a while ago?

I discussed it with her immediately after it happened and when it was time to get the teeth done. As far as I was concerned, I would have gone absolutely batshit at that job, called the police, management and a paramedic, as well as let her Unite office know. I also would have had the passenger returned to the scene. I would have gone mad at the destruction of the incident report (was this legal?), though I would have also requested a copy when it was done. I think she called customer care and her manager instead? It cost her thousands. Those bastards should have paid for it. Instead she was saddled with the full costs and wasn't even given full sick pay when she took time off to get them sorted, but government SSP (£100 every two weeks). She's usually very sharp at civil and work related matters, so her passiveness with this has been baffling.

1. I am really saddened that your wife has gone through this.

2. I would recommend avoiding British dentists in general. Splurge and take her to a country where people have good teeth.

Going overseas to get your teeth fixed as a form of tourism seems to be a thing. I've seen a few warning articles about it, and it was something that we discussed, going back to her home country of Thailand to do it. I know a guy who went back to his home country of Estonia to get implants. It cost him half the cost, he got to see his family for a few weeks and he was fine.