Grimm I have not been watching. Though I might have seen part of an episode on my sister's birthday -- does it air on Friday nights?
I got a cavity filled last week -- and then had to go back Sunday because I brushed the new filling right out on Saturday night -- and then the first replacement filling came out when the dentist was doing the final polishing-and-poking, so she had to do it yet again (this time with a different filling material, so it held). An issue with the location making it very hard to keep saliva out and the filling dry for long enough to bond. The dentist only numbed that one spot when he did the drilling last week, and I decided not to bother with being numbed up when having the filling replaced Sunday and that worked out well enough -- no worse than a few twinges.
I definitely ran across the thing with a dentist wanting to do a whole quad at a time, years ago -- or rather, half the mouth, which is why she wanted me in on two separate visits for "deep cleaning" (she wanted to numb my mouth for the cleaning, and also take care of any cavities she found at the same time), to say nothing of wanting to put me through three separate visits for my wisdom tooth extraction. (In that she couldn't do the impacted one herself, but wanted to cut out the three she could reach -- on two separate visits, since she'd only numb half a patient's mouth at a time -- and then send me to an oral surgeon for the last one.) I was mainly there for a referral to an oral surgeon who could A) get the impacted tooth, B) take care of all four of them at the same time, and C) knock me out for the procedure, so I refused to let her do my wisdom teeth, and wound up later on cancelling the appointments for deep cleaning because she got on my nerves so badly and because I'd turned out to have a dental discount plan rather than proper dental insurance so I couldn't afford to come back after the wisdom tooth extraction.
So that's why when I went in to have the tooth that broke off before Xmas extracted in January, I wound up getting my first cleaning in about twenty years. Turned out my teeth were in very good shape considering -- the one bad one that had been ruined by neighboring on the impacted wisdom tooth and eventually broken away, and the one cavity that I came back to have dealt with last week -- and the office favorably impressed me with dealing with dental cowardice and not trying to extract the maximal amount of money from me over multiple visits. Going to be making a point of returning there in future (hopefully for regular cleanings) and recommended them to my mother besides for the crown she needs to have replaced.
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Date: 2012-03-06 05:26 pm (UTC)I got a cavity filled last week -- and then had to go back Sunday because I brushed the new filling right out on Saturday night -- and then the first replacement filling came out when the dentist was doing the final polishing-and-poking, so she had to do it yet again (this time with a different filling material, so it held). An issue with the location making it very hard to keep saliva out and the filling dry for long enough to bond. The dentist only numbed that one spot when he did the drilling last week, and I decided not to bother with being numbed up when having the filling replaced Sunday and that worked out well enough -- no worse than a few twinges.
I definitely ran across the thing with a dentist wanting to do a whole quad at a time, years ago -- or rather, half the mouth, which is why she wanted me in on two separate visits for "deep cleaning" (she wanted to numb my mouth for the cleaning, and also take care of any cavities she found at the same time), to say nothing of wanting to put me through three separate visits for my wisdom tooth extraction. (In that she couldn't do the impacted one herself, but wanted to cut out the three she could reach -- on two separate visits, since she'd only numb half a patient's mouth at a time -- and then send me to an oral surgeon for the last one.) I was mainly there for a referral to an oral surgeon who could A) get the impacted tooth, B) take care of all four of them at the same time, and C) knock me out for the procedure, so I refused to let her do my wisdom teeth, and wound up later on cancelling the appointments for deep cleaning because she got on my nerves so badly and because I'd turned out to have a dental discount plan rather than proper dental insurance so I couldn't afford to come back after the wisdom tooth extraction.
So that's why when I went in to have the tooth that broke off before Xmas extracted in January, I wound up getting my first cleaning in about twenty years. Turned out my teeth were in very good shape considering -- the one bad one that had been ruined by neighboring on the impacted wisdom tooth and eventually broken away, and the one cavity that I came back to have dealt with last week -- and the office favorably impressed me with dealing with dental cowardice and not trying to extract the maximal amount of money from me over multiple visits. Going to be making a point of returning there in future (hopefully for regular cleanings) and recommended them to my mother besides for the crown she needs to have replaced.