Dentist

[jacey]

I've got a flobby mouth courtesy of a visit to my dentist to have two lost fillings replaced. Blech.

But, horror of horrors, Mr Chaudhuri, my dentist of thirty years is retiring! I still think of him as a 'charming young man'. He restored my faith in dentists after I almost got my jaw dislocated by an extremely unpleasant dentist in Wakefield (unpleasant on many levels) whose name I have blocked from my memory.

I will really miss Mr Chaudhuri. Apparently he and the other partner are being replaced by two newly qualified girlies from Sheffield University. So I'm going to have to break in a new dentist next time. Luckily they will still take NHS patients - though they offer private dentistry as well for optional procedures and materials.

Comments

[charlieallery.livejournal.com]

I sympathise. I'm very happy with my female dentist. She has excellent hands and is extremely efficient, but finding a good dentist seems to be as much luck as anything.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The nameless dentist in Wakefield was one of those who said 'Open wide' and then without waiting for you to do it, stuck both hands in your mouth and yanked. My jaw has clicked ever since.

He used to try and get you to have all your fillings without anaesthetic because it wouldn't hurt much. Yeah right!

And when I first went to him he systematically removed every filling in my head, dissed my previous dentist mightily, told me the rot in my teeth (under the fillings, so - duh!) was revolting and stank. A right little charmer.

I did have a woman dentist very briefly after that, close to where I worked, and she was OK, but I think I was still too traumatised from the horrible one to really appreciate her.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Good dentists are really hard to find.

Mine was wonderful but retired unexpectedly. Although I still go to his practice, it's unrecognisable now and I still feel abandoned!

So you have my sympathies and I hope the new dentist works out alright.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Unless something goes horribly wring with my teeth it will be November before I find out what the new ones are like. Though I do have some bridgework that needs doing and a crown. I put it off last year because of the expense, but I'm not sure how long I can continue to ignore it.

[bluehairsue.livejournal.com]

Um... my previous dentist DID dislocate my jaw once. (I have a very easily dislocatable jaw -- I can pretty much do it at will, but I prefer not to, because I can't always put it back myself... Very embarrassing. I had do go down to the surgery once to get R. to do it, and one of his partners opened the door and said "EEee, Sue, did you know your jawbone's up by your eyeball?" and I nodded and said "Ac Hac" (that being about all I could say...). It's painless. Fortunately.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Euwww...

Glad it's painless.

The only thing I've ever dislocated was a shoulder - which is definitely NOT painless. It's oh so much the other side of painless that I don't even want to think about it. (shudder)