How long ago was your last dental appointment?

[bigbeautifulmonster]

Me: about 2-3 years 🙈
Need to make that phone call!

Five years 😬. Just got private dental for me and my husband through my work so we're both booked in for our first appointments next week!

Last week and another tomorrow. Crown preparation. Last week was taking the nerve out. It hurt!

6 months ago. Emergency appointment to replace a filling. Managed another emergency appointment during 2021 due to a chipped front tooth, and had a proper appointment just before lockdown.

I'm going again because the filling from February has fallen out again, and the hag on reception had the audacity to accuse me of not keeping up with appointments, when they weren't seeing anyone!

5 August just gone.

I made a point of going just before my maternity exception ran our. DS is nearly 6

August 2020 to have a tooth out after a molar broke. DH and DD were December 2019. They weren't doing check ups during covid but we're all (me, DH and DD) booked in for one in December - first available appointments when they were booked a few weeks ago! Hopefully we can get into some sort of routine again.

July this year. My excellent dentist is NHS & private, she has suddenly deduced all my fillings might be leaking amalgam and could be decaying underneath. Idk what to do, I'm a bit wary of amalgam (mercury) and would have white fillings which NHS don't cover so looking at quite a lot of money.

11 years ago, and before that 1995.

Great teeth, no fillings, I look after them. No wisdom teeth, thank god. And never any pain or bleeding.

I'm 48.

About 7yrs ago? Moved to a new area and there are no NHS dentists here and I can't afford to pay.

Had one a couple of months ago for a cracked tooth, the earliest appointment was 8 weeks. That was my first in nearly 3 years.

July 22 ….next appt is Jan 23…. Every 6 months for me…..otherwise you get thrown off nhs list

NHS checkup was 6 months, but I had some private diastema work done with my practice in May.

12 years ago ... dentist numbed the wrong part and I felt the full extraction. Did a runner not long after that after so many complaints. Put me right off. Do they not do general anaesthetic anymore?

1995. But that's out of choice. I'm upset that I haven't been able to get DC an appt for around 5 years, since our dentist went private only.

Over 3 years 🙈 & I'm an ex dental nurse, shocking 😅 life gets in the way a bit, we always used to tell patient that we're embarrassed about the long interval between appointments, sometimes decades, that it happens 🤷‍♀️ most people don't think to book in unless their pain - whether it's because their afraid of the dentist or afraid of the bill - your in good company with the majority.

But I really should book in soon.

Were*
in* pain

I really need to start proof reading my posts

Last week. All fine, thankfully. I hadn't been for four years before that thanks to covid.

I went for over 10 years avoiding the dentist before finally getting the courage up to go back this year. Announced my dentist anxiety up front and everyone was lovely. It took two sittings with the hygienist to clean my teeth but other than that they were perfect and I still have no fillings at 46. Good luck rather than good managed me to and I don’t recommend this to anyone.

When I was a child and teen ai had an awful orthodontist with an appalling bedside manner as a traumatic incident where a baby molar was removed before the anaesthetic had taken effect.

They're probably already off the list - it really doesn't take long before the decision gets made to remove people who are not proactively making appointments each year.

Ive had several appointments since the COVID disruptions, to the dentist and the hygienist, and I never leave the surgery without getting my next appointment in their books, every 6-8 months for a check up.

4 weeks ago but that's the first since the Covid thing hit town.

Tuesday. Two fillings. It hurt

Not too keen on our new dentist

Several years. We don't have NHS dentistry in my town and a very very long waiting list nearby. I can't afford to go private any more. I have a broken tooth and another filling which has broken

Braces are what’s killing us at the moment. Both DD (17) and FS (14) need them as DD’s orthodontic work was derailed by the pandemic. We simply can’t afford two sets of braces, even with a payment plan. One set would be a stretch, tbh.

It’s depressing not to be able to fix your children’s wonky teeth . ☹️ We’re hoping we can manage it next year.

*DS

I go once a month as I have a brace.
I haven't seen an NHS dentist since about 1987.