I've just come back from the dentists and am left feeling slightly confused and a bit angry.
I went in for a filling, part of an existing filling had broken away, resulting in a hole on a back molar.
The dentist did a hard sell on a crown and root canal treatment (to be done privately for £1500!) I cannot afford this type of treatment. He said the NHS version wasn't good enough and wouldn't save the tooth.
He went ahead and did a filling. It was over fairly quickly and I felt quite relieved at this point.
I have a check up in 2 weeks so was just leaving and said see you soon. The dentist said he'd only charge £22.70 for the filling because it was an emergency filling. I thought this was odd because I was expecting to pay for band 2 nhs treatment as this is where fillings fall under.
When I got home I googled emergency filling and have since realised it's just a temporary one. This was never explained to me.
I feel frustrated that there was a hard sell on expensive private treatment and feel like he should have explained the temporary filling situation. I've found out I'm meant to be more gentle with a temporary filling. But this wasn't explained to me! I'll also obviously need to have a proper one done but again this wasn't mentioned!
Sorry about the rant, I feel so frustrated and feel like I was just rushed out of my appointment without a proper explanation.
I have tried to ring the practice twice but there's no answer.
Why wouldn't the NHS treatment be any good?
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Bad experience at dentists
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Bailey29 · 14/11/2019 18:02
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