So for complicated reasons i currently have two nhs dentists. The second one only recently and the plan was to visit the second dentist for a check up, decide which I liked better and leave one. I’m still struggling to work out what to do complicated by what’s happened over the last couple of months.
So dentist A tells me I need a root canal but they won’t do it on the nhs and a colleague in the practice will do it privately for over 1k.
while contemplating root canal or extraction I get a phone call after being on a waiting list for ages for dentist B, and I think great maybe they will do it on the NHS.
so I go and see them, I don’t tell them I also have dentist A. They say I need a root canal and they won’t do it on the NHS or even private as are so busy.
so I go back to Dentist A dental practice and see their private expert and pay a bit over 1k for a root canal on my back upper molar. They say come back in a few weeks for a £350 crown on the NHS. I go back for this crown appt which is with dentist A, she looks a bit shocked and asks why her colleague filed so much of my tooth down. I’m like 🤷♀️. She says come back in four weeks for the crown appointment. I go back and by now this tooth is sensitive/painful to pressure. It’s not hurting all the time but i can’t eat that side. I tell her this, she taps it hard with an instrument and I flinch. She declares she can’t do it as if the root canal has failed it’s a waste of money. And makes me an appointment to come back in Oct to see if the pain has settled.
today I’m due a check up at dentist B. So I think great I can get a second opinion. Dentist b says I barely have any tooth left, it’s all filling. Says she would not be able to put a crown on it, her recommendation is I do not have a crown. She says if I was to have a crown it would just keep falling off. I believe to have the crown fitted I need even more filing down. She said having a crown could make things worse. Keep in mind she doesn’t know I have dentist A.
so is dentist B just not wanting to be arsed doing it. Or is she correct and dentist A is a cowboy who is prepared to do a risky crown. Or is dentist A just a better dentist and thinks she can manage? Or maybe dentist A doesn’t want to admit there’s not enough tooth to do it because it paints her colleague in a bad light.
i said to dentist b will I not have problems if I don’t have a crown. She said not necessarily. And if I do I will just need it pulling out.
i have no idea what to do. I’m also annoyed with the private dentist who did the root canal and I feel he has butchered my tooth and shouldn’t have done it. That he just took my 1k and has fucked my mouth up. Have no idea if I have grounds for complaint about him.