I need some help!!! Serious answers pleaseeee!!!

[Biker Babe]

Update !!!

Firstly thanx to all for the encouragement and kind words......... :bow:

Right I have just got back from the dreaded dentist, after reading steve's post (above) thought I can't ruin his holiday, after the grief we've had recently so it took some doing but I went, well!!

I walked in and said can I ask some questions? I asked 2 questions then got hit with this?

"Time is money sit in the chair or go"!!! I said I couldn't help being so scared and just wanted to ask a few questions, and he said "this is a business and he had other patients to see, but I could go private in which case,

cop this one,,,,,,, I would get treated better and get better treatment,!"

I asked how much this would be and he said approx ?450.........

So if its the case you can't afford to go private then, you gotta put up with an under rated service as ur not worthy.............yeh BO**OX........

I left before hitting the c**t.......... :bang:

He made me feel like I was a bloody pain and taking up to much of his valuable time, when he could be treating someone else who's paying privately and he's getting mega bucks!!! Nah sorry just cos I ain't a private patient don't mean I'm gonna except shit like that?

Worry not babe we will have a great holiday i'll just make sure I'm pi**ed all the time, but i'll take plenty of pain killers just to be on the safe side, and then when we get home i'll look around for a different dentist, although I'm even more worried now that all dentists are gonna have the same attitude ????

Sorry steve but I tried, u know how scared of dentist's I am, and for ur sake I really did try, sorry...... :cry:

 

[Supabird1100]

That seem's to be the going rate for them. My last visit to him cost just under ?500 and the treatment I got was no better or no worse than the old NHS dentists.

Look on the bright side....we've got travel insurance, so if you need to see the dentist in Turkey we can claim the cost back when we get home !!!! :} :}

Ring another dentist and try somewhere else ??? :dunno:

 

[derek kelly]

Look in your local paper for the emergency Dentist (out of hours) and give him/her a call, lay it on thick how you have started with a raging toothache and you are going on holiday the next day, you will probably find him/her to be excellent. I have had the need to use them twice now both times absolutely pain free. I think that the Dentists who offer their services as emergency Dentists are the ones who actually care about their work and care about their patients, but do it sooner rather than later because you know that you are going to have to face it and the longer you leave it the worse it will get. several years ago we were flying home from Spain when my daughter developed toothache, & when you are 35,000 feet up in the air it is no fun, she was only eight at the time she is now twenty four and she can still remember the pain, I am not trying to frighten you, I just don't want you to go through what my daughter went through.

Good luck, get it done, and enjoy your holiday

 

[Centaur]

Well Done

Biker Babe. You proved you can do it. What a pity you courage was wasted on an asshole. Don't wait until after your hol. Find another dentist now. You can do it. :bow:

 

[BraXX]

So your problem with dentists surely is "the dentist".
I believe one's teeth are well worth the $450, specially the front ones, choose a good dentist and don't forget to call that one to say you decided to pay and who you paid to :}

 

[Artemis]

What an arsehole. I'm a firm believer that fear of dentists starts in childhood with the SCHOOL DENTIST (shouted just to make everyone remember the butcher). Well, I was lucky, my mother would never let any of us see the school dentist and took us instead to Mr Heeks.

What a wonderful man, sadly retired now. Called his drills the 'whizzy one' and the 'rattley one', always took plenty of time, very calmly and would give anaesthetic injections plenty of time to work before beginning. Never hurt me once and I went to him from the age of 8 or 9 (many moons ago) until I moved to Wales when I was 30.

When my son was old enough to need a dentist I drove him the 12 miles from where we lived then to see Mr Heeks. Again, he's never had a moments pain and has no problem at all with dentists.

Find a good dentist (can any of your friends recommend one?) and stick with him (or her). Go every six months for a check-up so that you stay on his/her list, and make sure any kids (grandkids in the fullness of time) go to a good one too, to spare them all the anguish and fear you are going through.

Lecture over, best of luck, BB.

 

[Supabird1100]

What an arsehole. I'm a firm believer that fear of dentists starts in childhood with the SCHOOL DENTIST.

And is it me.....or did the school dentist just drill ya teeth and stick fillings in for the sake of it ?? I was never in pain but the school dentist ALWAYS found a couple of teeth he just HAD to drill out !!!!!

And what he started the Army finished off !!!!!

 

[Artemis]

And is it me.....or did the school dentist just drill ya teeth and stick fillings in for the sake of it ?? I was never in pain but the school dentist ALWAYS found a couple of teeth he just HAD to drill out !!!!!

And what he started the Army finished off !!!!!

Dunno, never saw him :neenaw: but I did hear plenty about him, and that army dentist too. None of it good.