look after your teeth...you don't get any more (Dentists)

Member Name: sarlozzer

Product:	Dentists
Date:	11/06/09 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: a life saver when you have a dentist

Disadvantages: hard to find an nhs dentist, expensive if private

I've not exactly had the best time with dentists to be fair. When i was younger i was fitted with a brace which was the start of my problems. From the start i apsolutely hated it, it wasn't your regular run of the mill train track brace, this was more of a contraption. It was a plate which was designed to try and flatten my top front teeth and bring my bottom jaw forward by hooking onto my bottom teeth. This was a childs worst nightmare, i couldn't eat with it in, or drink and i always dribbled, it was himiluating. Slowly i started to wear it less and less until my mother forgot i even had one to my delight. If i knew what i know now i would have put up with the torture, i hate that my teeth stick out a little and especially that my jaw is set back.

Over the next eight years i hadn't visited the dentist once as unfortunately i lost my dentist due to it changing to private and i was unable to afford the fees. My teeth slowly got worse and worse, and one day i had the most awfull tooth ache ever, and my only option was to visit the emergency dentist. To my relief they filled in my hole and thought that would be the end of it. To my dismay two weeks later the filling fell out,what the hell i thought? At a closer inspection it turned out to be a temporary filling which they had stuffed with cotton wool stuff. Why on earth could they just not permantly fill it up, rather than putting a silly temporary one in, wouldn't this be less hastle for both parties in the long run?

It took me 8 years to finially find an nhs dentist (as i had no way of affording a private one), by this time my teeth had decayed, i knew this was partly to genetics as my family also have bad teeth, but was this also due to eating too many sweets or not brushing my teeth well enough? Well all i could think was that i finially had a dentist and couldn't wait to get them fixed. I am only 22 now and have got 6 filling and need to have 3 teeth taken out...how bad! If i had a dentist previously i believe i wouldn't have to have a ny teeth out...this has come to me a as a major blow...nobody wants to have their teeth removed. I just wish i could re-grow my teeth again. If i knew what i do now i would defenitaly take more care of my teeth.

In my opinion dentists are a life saver, but im not a fan of how they are run, just think of the thousands of people who don't have a dentist and how their teeth must be. Since the closure of so many nhs dentists teeth problems have risen, shouldn't it be like medical care and be entitled to it?

Summary: shouldn't we be entitled to dental care?