Do dentists do anything any more, besides making their staff clean your teeth, and referring you to more specialized practitioners?
I have a cavity. I want it filled. I do not want multiple sessions of teeth cleaning. To begin with, I'm pretty sure that's how I got the fucking cavity.
Fuck's sake.
I keep having dentists clean my teeth until there's no coverage left, then having to wait a year for coverage, then having them say they want to clean my teeth first.
FFUUUCK!
For starters, maybe scratching at my teeth with hardened steel picks might possibly not be good for them! What kind of racket is this?
I had a wisdom tooth that needed out, and the dentist wanted to wait until I'd had all my teeth cleaned. 3 out of 4 cleanings in, it abscessed and had to be pulled anyway - by an oral surgeon!
What the fuck does a dentist even do any more?
The one dentist who even cleaned my teeth _themselves_ accidentally injected my facial nerve and almost maimed me.
/vent
@AskTheDevil recent hauntingly similar experience. Is it an independent dentist or a franchise dental practice?
Also, itās disgusting that itās a separate insurance coverage. Like Iāve had three spinal surgeries. Paid $250 out of pocket after my insurance. Total out of pocket. $250. Custom titanium mesh, rods, screws, a whole prosthetic cervical discā¦
So tell me why a deep dental cleaning is $650 out of pocket? Just for the cleaning that they āhave to doā before the dentist will do his job.
@MotherDucker Both corporate/franchise and private practice. Both equally rapacious.
@AskTheDevil I once had a dentist make me feel like shit for still having wisdom teeth: https://counter.social/@MotherDucker/110062895473641377
So I get to the oral maxillofacial surgeon and he takes one saying the others donāt need to come out and dentist need to stop saying everyone needs them out because theyāre not taking in the whole picture in term of repercussions.
Go back to the dentist and heās like, why do you still have wisdom teeth? Go get them out.
Piss right off.
@MotherDucker I have had a couple of dentists try to _guilt_ me for possessing wisdom teeth! I thought that was bizaare!
That same attitude you describe, like I've shit my pants by having wisdom teeth! WTF!
What's funny is clearly none of them expected to try that on Satan.
I assure you, I have striven to make each such experience tutelary.