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

[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)