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Originally Posted by ScaredGal
ok I am overcoming 47 years of fear and now that I am able to deal with this I can't go back to my old ways ,if I could I would , I had a small filling done , and what he did was grind off a flat spot of the tooth and did not reshape it and this bugs me , I am about to have a crown done or a 3/4 onlay ( I also feel this is up to me if it should be a full crown or an onlay not his choice but mine) anyway this small filling has me questioning his skills , if he takes the easy way out with this small filling how on earth can I trust him with a more complex job ( I need to have total trust , not just blind faith ) now I told him if i need a root canal i will have the tooth extracted by the oral surgeon and his assistant looked at me and said a root canal is not that bad , i looked at her and said , listen , it is not an option and it's not going to happen , so anyway i am going in on the 19th to have a small surface stain removed and i am going to have a long talk with him about what i feel , i have never ever been one to hold back what is on my mind , if i offend him so be it , it's my mouth and it's my money , hard earned i might add , also i am telling him if during the work he finds i need a root canal to stop all work and i will have it removed , i have told friends my feelings and about the talk i am going to have with him and there reaction is , you can't talk to a dentist that way ,, i say that is bull , you question your auto repair guy and tv repair man , so where is it written you don't question a dentist on his skills , am i wrong here or just a total nut job ,, well i am a nut job but that's beside the fact ,,, but to just do what a dentist says and not question him on every aspect of this goes against my grain
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I had what I thought was a GREAT dentist. Skipping directly to my nightmare, my dentist (general dentist, not oral surgeron) pulled ALL my teeth and put in "immediate" dentures. I was not to remove them for any reason for 3 days and then return. I followed instructions and was in a lot of pain which I contributed to swelling. I was unable to even drink a swallow of water with the dentures. Eating was an impossibility. After months of complaining, he made me a new set of dentures. They caused extreme pain the instant I placed them in my mouth. Again, I complained, and was told to "buck up" in so many words. I could not believe that people that wore dentures were suffering like me. He made a third set of dentures, which were worse than the first two sets, all of which I had to pay for each time at a total cost of over $14,000 out of my pocket. After 18 months of having no teeth, I went to a specialist. She made me a set of dentures that have been fantastic, never a moment of pain. YES, you should question skill levels. Second and third opinions are just as needed in dentistry as in medical care. It was a VERY costly lesson for me. I also paid my NEW dentist almost $5000 for my new chops so having teeth cost me nearly $20 grand in total. To this day, I want to go back and tell my former dentist off but have not. The day may still come when I do as I have never gotten over it and it has been 9 years. (I did not mention the $25 grand I spent on oral surgery that failed 10 years prior to the decision to have all my teeth removed.)
Get a second opinion, and maybe a third. Dentisty is VERY expensive so you want to be sure you make the BEST decision, not just the decision of one dentist. Keep in mind, once a tooth is gone, it is gone forever.