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.

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[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.