Off to the Dentist Today

I’m off to the dentist today and not with any fear about pain, but concern about deception.  My experiences with dentists rank at the very bottom.  Seeing deception, it seems I cannot find an honest dentist for over a decade, and I have run through them like water!

I even took a recommendation from a fabulous oral surgeon and went to the dentist he recommended. I know he believed she was a good dentist and it is clear from my experiences now that she is fooling even him!  At first, she treated me good, but when I sent her my parents, she was not aware my mom had the same ability as me and she lied to my parents left and right. She tried to get my mom to do a root canal on a tooth and when my mom asked why, she said you must have an abcess that you don’t know about.

You’ve got to be kidding me.  Dentistry isn’t about guessing. It’s about fact finding and investigation–not just oh you probably have an abscess! I don’t think so…

And that’s wasn’t even the whole of it, but I don’t care to go on about it. 

I’ve tried called dental labs to ask who does precise work only to be sent to a guy who I truly worry could kill someone.  I kid you not! The guy was crazy and very unsanitary at that. He had no assistant — he worked completely alone, and did horrible work. His fillings didn’t even last 5 years.

I asked for recommendations from friends and strangers only to find I was given the name of the first woman I chose above — three times. 

And the other one I was recommended?  He didn’t recognize when his filling failed.  He blamed it on me and told me to keep taking more tylenol at high doses that he was sure the pain would go away. I ended up at the oral surgeon’s office after that fiasco!

If there is one field that I am highly disappointed with it is without question dentistry. And yet I worked for one of the best dentists in my small town for a year–so I know good and honest and genuine dentists do exist!

Inevitably, some dentist will read this and please know I welcome it.  How would you go about finding an honest dentist?  I’d love to know…