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I don't have any stories; have had competent care throughout my life
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Jun 13, 2023 01:25
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Yeah me neither
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Jun 13, 2023 01:29
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There was this one time with OP's mum, when her denture was displaced by my monster dong, and we were briefly locked together until I finally busted and was able to extract myself, now on the flop.
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Jun 13, 2023 02:13
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My dentist was once checking my teeth with a pick and straight up pushed the pick right through an old filling and up into my jaw. Amazingly, it didn’t hurt that bad and all he said was, “oh, whoops, sorry bout that.” Then billed me for a new filling.
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Jun 13, 2023 02:24
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I have paresthesia in a quarter of my face because they hosed up a nerve taking my wisdom teeth out. I also woke up mid procedure because they didn't give me enough anesthetic, or monitor it or whatever those loving morons didn't do. For the face thing, it feels kinda tingly and loses feeling more when it's cold. Face looks normal, muscles work, and I talk fine (unless it's very cold or I'm drinking really cold drinks, then it tends to feel "thick"). Both of these experiences were very uncomfortable.
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Jun 13, 2023 02:29
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my best friend's dentist turned out to have faked his degree/license/whatever and had done some bad poo poo with his teeth but I don't remember any of the things he did
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Jun 13, 2023 02:34
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Had a 65 year old dentist id seen for a decade try to do my first and only root canal and he broke the tip off the drill bit because his hands were shaking. He broke it off in the tooth and said "oh... Fuu.... poo poo!" Then I had to go to a specialist who removed the nearly microscopic steel bit and saved the tooth and stopped a jaw infection. Dentistry is hosed. Up.
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Jun 13, 2023 02:40
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Cubone posted:my best friend's dentist turned out to have faked his degree/license/whatever and had done some bad poo poo with his teeth but I don't remember any of the things he did He used the good nitrous then I bet
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Jun 13, 2023 02:40
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spouse posted:I have paresthesia in a quarter of my face because they hosed up a nerve taking my wisdom teeth out. I also woke up mid procedure because they didn't give me enough anesthetic, or monitor it or whatever those loving morons didn't do. Haha I woke up in the middle of my wisdom teeth removal too. I have a distinct memory of the surgeons talking about their vacation homes. What else would you expect surgeons to talk about.
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Jun 13, 2023 02:41
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Another opportunity to post my favorite local news story that was in the news up here a few years ago: https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2020/09/15/anchorage-hoverboard-dentist-sentenced-in-medicaid-fraud-scheme/ quote:A 25-second video shows Dr. Seth Lookhart floating into an exam room. He appears to remove a tooth from a sedated patient, then pivots and rides away on a hoverboard, tossing his gloves in the air, removing his mask and flashing a smile at the camera. BigHead fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Jun 13, 2023 02:44
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spouse posted:I also woke up mid procedure because they didn't give me enough anesthetic, or monitor I told them I'm a readhead; still woke up mid-procedure with them cutting into my wisdom tooth. I remember that and then being in the post-op seating area off my rear end on the drugs and trying to talk up the employees
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Jun 13, 2023 02:53
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In my late teens my dentist put sealants on my molars, and apparently didn't properly clean beforehand. I developed cavities in 6 of those teeth, under the sealants.
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Jun 13, 2023 03:43
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When I was a teen I got a retainer after my braces came off, and for a while things were fine but I guess something about the way they fit didn't look right? Because during one visit my dentist suddenly started bending the wires. I told him that it hurt when I put the retainer on and he told me that was normal. Well, a few weeks later I had to go back in because the retainer still hurt, and as later discovered it was starting to shift my canines in a bad direction. And the wire was too bent out of shape to return to what it used to be. The very same dentist had the gall to accuse me of ruining my own retainers by eating hard food with them on, and he tried to charge my parents full price for a replacement. Thankfully my dad knew me well enough to know I'd been real careful not to do anything to break my retainer and I'd already told him the pain started after the adjustment, so he got in an argument with the dentist and got him to back down and do the replacements for free. To this day my canines still aren't perfectly aligned (a different dentist claimed my mouth was just too small to fit all my teeth???) even after I wore correctly-fitted retainers for several years, but I never want to go back to braces and retainers and have to deal with that poo poo again. MiracleFlare fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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Jun 13, 2023 03:53
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*tooth smoke smell*
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Jun 13, 2023 03:58
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killer crane posted:In my late teens my dentist put sealants on my molars, and apparently didn't properly clean beforehand. I developed cavities in 6 of those teeth, under the sealants. Sealant fam
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Jun 13, 2023 04:32
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MiracleFlare posted:To this day my canines still aren't perfectly aligned (a different dentist claimed my mouth was just too small to fit all my teeth???) even after I wore correctly-fitted retainers for several years, but I never want to go back to braces and retainers and have to deal with that poo poo again. I mean this is literally why wisdom teeth removal is a thing, because a lot of people's mouths are in fact too small to fit all their teeth, and some people happen to then have it even worse than the rest who just need their wisdom teeth removed (and some people are lucky and their mouths are big enough for all their teeth and don't need their wisdom teeth removed.)
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Jun 13, 2023 05:10
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i have all my wisdom teeth and im still a dumbass
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Jun 13, 2023 05:19
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Chinatown posted:*tooth smoke smell*
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Jun 13, 2023 05:23
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Never dealt with any real incompetence, but one time I went into a cheap dentist in the kinda mobbed-up part of my neighborhood for the free exam that they offered in my local newspaper, they gave me a questionnaire that was mostly about did I want opiates and when I said no, the dentist came in, looked in my mouth for 5 minutes, said everything looked fine, left the room, and the woman at the front desk didn't even charge me the fifty bucks.
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Jun 13, 2023 05:26
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i had headgear as a kid I had to wear when I slept, motherfucker hurt like hell. for some reason the loops they put on your back teeth that you slot the headgear wires into had like, loving metal spikes on them that dig into your cheek all the time. one time at an orthodontist checkup he took a dental pick and wrenched it in one of said spiky headgear loops, kept trying to force it around for some braindead reason, and the pick slipped and stabbed me in the mouth as he straight up punched me in the face hard enough to make my cheek bleed pretty bad from the spikes “whoops. huh, seems that loop is a little loose.” it wasn’t before you threw your whole weight into it you tremendous dumbass
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Jun 13, 2023 05:26
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reignonyourparade posted:I mean this is literally why wisdom teeth removal is a thing, because a lot of people's mouths are in fact too small to fit all their teeth, and some people happen to then have it even worse than the rest who just need their wisdom teeth removed (and some people are lucky and their mouths are big enough for all their teeth and don't need their wisdom teeth removed.) Yeah true. I've also been recommended to get my wisdom teeth removed but I'd had to put it off because of money issues Chinatown posted:*tooth smoke smell* *uses the minty polisher that just tastes like burning after the first minute*
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Jun 13, 2023 05:51
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Not incompetent, but my childhood dentist had enormous breasts. Past a certain age it was difficult to ignore.
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Jun 13, 2023 06:06
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If you've been told you need a deep cleaning, odds are it is incompetence. Incompetence in that they are just trying to bilk you of some $$. A competent dentist is just going to try to help you keep your teeth in good shape, not upsell you on unnecessary, painful procedures.
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Jun 13, 2023 06:34
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Had a tooth crack open while mountain hiking last year and couldn't get my appointment bumped up because they didn't believe the fairly extreme pain I was in constituted an emergency. A week later, they were asking why I didn't tell them my tooth was that that bad off... But seriously, I legit don't know if I could have handled that pain for another few days.
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Jun 13, 2023 06:37
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spouse posted:I have paresthesia in a quarter of my face because they hosed up a nerve taking my wisdom teeth out. I also woke up mid procedure because they didn't give me enough anesthetic, or monitor it or whatever those loving morons didn't do. You have a pretty solid case if you want to sue, fyi
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Jun 13, 2023 06:53
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i have my wisdom teeth. they obviously dont sit right in my mouth but they cause me no discomfort or pain and every dentist i have ever been to has wanted to take them out. despite me being like they dont hurt and arent uncomfortable.
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Jun 13, 2023 06:55
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When I lived in knoxville I had a dentist give me a full on christian sermon while I was a captive 8 year old with his hands in my mouth and afterwards I told my dad and he went in there and screamed at him
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Jun 13, 2023 06:56
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MiracleFlare posted:*uses the minty polisher that just tastes like burning after the first minute* we went from flip phones to smartphones meanwhile theres some company still making that same trash polisher.
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Jun 13, 2023 06:58
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For a while the dental hygienist I was going to was really cute. She made me think of Steven Wright every time I went to her.
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Jun 13, 2023 07:33
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Genesplicer posted:For a while the dental hygienist I was going to was really cute. She made me think of Steven Wright every time I went to her. Every hygienist is cute youre gonna need to narrow it down, gene
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Jun 13, 2023 07:37
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Steven Wright is pretty cute.
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Jun 13, 2023 09:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMhGUhSNKmQ
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Appointment one Me: hey this tooth is feeling weird  Dentist: all your teeth look fine to me  Appointment two Me: hey there is a hole in my tooth Dentist: no there isn't  Appointment three Me: hey there is a bigger hole in my tooth and it really hurts Dentist: seriously there is nothing wrong with your teeth Appointment four Me: my tooth has fallen apart  New Dentist: your other dentist was a loving moron you are gonna need a crown and three fillings 
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Jun 13, 2023 10:50
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After removing a wisdom tooth (in bits), they accidentally sewed my tongue to my gum and had to remove some of their stitching and redo it. I was awake for the whole thing (intentionally, not like some of the above). I do have a fat tongue though.
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Jun 13, 2023 10:59
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my dentist bit me
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Jun 13, 2023 12:58
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He probably felt trapped. Very common.
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Jun 13, 2023 12:59
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coldpudding posted:Appointment one Sounds like they were in cahoots
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Jun 13, 2023 14:03
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My friend's dad was my dentist. When I was a teenager he said he could tell I was smoking (I was), and then he called my parents and told them I was smoking. Are dentists not bound by doctor patient confidentiality? Anyway we smoked a joint together at his son's wedding and I told his wife and she got mad at him, so water under the bridge.
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My dentist is ancient. Assistants clean our teeth and always say they are perfect. I’ve been complaining about a sensitive spot for years. I thought he was just letting the teeth rot out of my head so he could do more expensive work. My wife had the same issue but ended up needing a root canal. The dentist sent her to someone else for the work. Now it looks like he just needs to retire. He probably can’t do any work himself and is just running a teeth cleaning service.
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