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PerkyOchrePeer · 18/12/2024 23:16

I have never heard of this before but apparently my dental surgery has two different kinds of X-rays and that is an ordinary X-Ray and a superior X-Ray and they only do a superior x-ray if you go with tooth pain so the ordinary xray is false as it doesnt show up any dental issues

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PerkyOchrePeer · 19/12/2024 07:57

I'm also not very happy that my dentist said to me the reason why people need a lot of feelings is because they eat sugar which is wrong because I know someone who eats tons of sugar but then flosses very thoroughly every night for at least 30 minutes and has not had a feeling for five years and it's not because this person has cut down on the amount of sugar they eat it's because they floss so it's not your sugar consumption it's the flossing that saves teeth

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PerkyOchrePeer · 19/12/2024 07:54

So I think that dentists should give CT scans as a normal routine

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PerkyOchrePeer · 19/12/2024 07:53

And the only reason I knew that there was anything wrong with the tooth was because it started hurting so I went to the dentist to see why it was hurting and then all this came to light and the dentist said you have a cavity and my own dentist said to me you don't need to come back until your six months check up and all the time I've got this cavity I don't think that's right and it doesn't fill me with much confidence that I'm going to get the best treatment available because issues are being missed

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PerkyOchrePeer · 19/12/2024 07:51

Tulip32 · 19/12/2024 01:22

I had something significant show up on a CT scan at the dentists that wasn't visible on the routine xray. Needed an urgent root canal filling which fortunately saved the tooth. Scan was in relation to having an implant following an accident so unrelated. Maybe this is what he was referring to by superior xray.

Yes but if you have things going on with any of your teeth that need addressing and they don't show up in the normal x-ray how will you know about them and fix them before they get worse because my tooth pain was related to an infection which was caused by a cavity and if the cavity doesn't show up on the normal X-ray and then it leads to an infection that is not good because if the cavity had shown up on the normal X-ray it could have been dealt with before it led to an infection

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Tulip32 · 19/12/2024 01:22

I had something significant show up on a CT scan at the dentists that wasn't visible on the routine xray. Needed an urgent root canal filling which fortunately saved the tooth. Scan was in relation to having an implant following an accident so unrelated. Maybe this is what he was referring to by superior xray.

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PerkyOchrePeer · 18/12/2024 23:24

I was confused about these two different X-rays so I found up the practice and ask them to get the dentist to explain and he wouldn't explain and he just said I was mistaken and I think he said that because he thought I would complain because if you don't get the correct X-Ray and you have dental issues and they don't show up then it could lead to something really nasty and then you could put in a complaint about the dentist and he could be struck off

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