poster BoneyBackJefferson
No Neither my son or I have had any help.
As far as I am concerned I have sort of managed to cope with it - I think. But what I haven't been able to cope with is the fact that because I became a 'client of the State' at some point, I have had the most incredible amount of abuse from the State in every way imaginable. I cannot explain here as it would take a minimum of a thousand words just to describe a microscopic fraction of it.
But will give you a really simple example of something similar which has nothing to do with the family goings on my son & I have experienced but does explain how the State spends vast amounts of money screwing up everything they do and utterly failing to actually provide the things our Government says it provides.
I went to an NHS dentist about a year ago for him to replace a gold metal cap or on-lay onto my lower back molar tooth. That particular practice had made one and placed it three years previously, but it had unglued itself, fallen off and become lost.
He said OK, commenced taking mouldings etc and then suddenly casually mentioned he was doing a 'composite' thing instead of a gold metal cap. Gold metal is the best solution, composite is not as good. When I asked why he was not doing a gold metal moulding as requested he lied to me and told me the NHS does not do gold metal caps for teeth because gold is now too expensive.
I researched with the NHS that they did, in fact do gold on-lays and confirmed he lied. Time passed while I dithered about what to do and then my upper left pre-molar tooth broke, exposing the nerve. This dentist had suddenly hijacked me, so to speak, at the end of our discussion about gold and composite fillings and he said 'Oh, before you go I'll just repair this filling on your pre-molar'. I had no rot, no broken filling and asked him why on earth he was interfering with it. I was bamboozled into acquiescence anyway & stumbled out of his surgery in a daze really.
Still dithering a few months later this molar broke because the dentist just drilled the tooth, weakening it and the side broke away while there was nothing in my mouth except a bit of soft fried onion which applied sidewards pressure to the side wall of the tooth as my upper jaw bit down on it. The side wall broke off , exposing the nerve.
Now the real fun started. Cutting a very long story short I went to about five or six different NHS dentists after that and had about twelve appointments as well as being referred to a hospital by one of those dentists who said they did not have the expertise to deal with this tooth.
All those dentists totally cocked up the tooth, caused more damage and were completely and utterly incompetent. None of them were even capable of placing a temporary filling properly as all the ones they placed fell apart after and hour or so in some cases in others just lasting a few days before dis-integrating. I spend months in pain and months spending all day on the phone just trying to get all this incompetent treatment in the first place as every dentist I spoke to told me how they NHS wouldn't pay them enough money to treat patients properly.
Eventually I gave up and went to a five star private dental practice. I was seen instantly the same day and my first appointment was only to place a temporary filling while this tooth was assessed as to what would be the appropriate long term solution and cost. It only cost me £59 (only about £32 more than the NHS pays the dentist for the same job, so not too expensive). Magically, this filling has not fallen out /disintegrated or caused the extreme discomfort the incompetent NHS temporary fillings had. Funny that !
I am currently awaiting the written report & costing. But unfortunately it is almost certain the idiotically incompetent NHS dentists have damaged the tooth far too much for it to be saved with a root filling topped by a crown. And so the only best solution available will probably be an implant costing perhaps £2000. But even a root filling and crown done by this private dentist would cost about £1200.
I am legally entitled to completely free NHS dental treatment but have failed to be able to get the necessary work done at all in what is now ten months during which time this 'trivial' problems has dominated every single day.
I went to the private dentist because there didn't seem any eventual possibility of ever getting any proper NHS treatment at all let alone the tooth root filled with a crown on it which was the original idea, until one of those incompetent NHS dentists incorrectly and carelessly screwed a metal post sideways through the tooth and into my jaw bone instead of vertically down through the root canal where the tooth root had been, as is the correct practice.
And then another total bastard of an NHS 'emergency' dentist told me he did not have the screwdriver required to insert into the screw head of this metal post to unscrew it out of the tooth to proceed with a temporary repair, but he would 'try' & unscrew it with - and he showed me - tweezers ! Think about it. Do you really think it is possible to unscrew a tiny, tiny little screw that has been screwed into the hard ivory of a tooth by grasping the head with tiny, tiny little limp wristed tweezers that will have absolutely no ability whatsoever to grip the screw, let alone turn it and unscrew it out of one of the hardest substances possible, harder than wood for example - ivory being incredibly hard & strong stuff.
I felt this lying moron deliberately waggle the metal post back and forth using those tweezers until the post broke off, leaving half of it embedded within the tooth which now compounds the problem the tooth is facing, making it almost impossible to save. This dentist did this deliberately when what he should have done if he didn't have a screwdriver, was tell me and give me the option of not being treated by him until the total idiot got himself a screwdriver which should, obviously, always be part of the dental equipment any dentist should have. If he hasn't got a screwdriver how on earth can he ever deal with any previously placed root canal problem he may find.
This is the NHS in action and an example of the utter, utter incompetence of our government. It is that same incompetence which led directly to the recent Grenfell Tower fire which roasted about 80 men, women and children alive. Our government is so rotten it is not really so different to some tin pot third world bunch of idiots running a corrupt government like South Africa or Zimbabwe or Venuzuela.
So, I've written more than a thousand words anyway and this is a really simple issue to describe, so writing anything about my more complicated family saga & being a client of the State would take tens of thousands of words.