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Originally Posted by Darrin
Mark, I've had a few bad experiences with them. Mostly in the military. I joined the navy and had only ever had one cavity. 3 months prior to joining my family dentist did a checkup and said all was good.
6 months after going to bootcamp I had to take a mandatory military dental exam. I couldn't go to a civilian of my choice, I couldn't even pick the military dentist to go to. I got stuck with someone that makes your experience sound like heaven. All of a sudden I had two teeth that needed extraction and 12 cavities that needed work. Yeah, I was a guinea pig for this tool. And when he's all done, he's left me with TEMPORARY fillings. So by the time I get back from the Gulf, all the holes he drilled and left unprotected had turned in to comlete and utter rot.
Now I'm left with over $6,500 worth of dental work to get dentures, two root canals, two crowns, and a bridge. All coming out of my pocket. When if he'd left my damned teeth alone I would still have all of my originals instead of only having 12 teeth in my upper jaw (all of them broken off) and 9 of my lower remaining (two of them being the ones needing the root canals and two needing the crowns).
Me bitter? Nah!!
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Crikey, i went to a different dentist a few years ago, straight out of dental school (every time i hear that i think of Clerks :P ) she did an x-ray, and said i needed 6 fillings and a root canal, i went back to my other dentist next time and said i needed nothing of the sort.
18-09-2008, 15:01
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