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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
7 comments:
I have a love/hate relationship with the dentist. I love my teeth to be healty but I hate the pain involved.
I'm so glad they have sonic cleaning now.
I have more crowns than the queen.
I used to hate going to the dentist, but I've found a dentist that I love and it's not all that bad anymore. The worst part of my dental visits is the needle to numb up. For some reason, I have a high tolerance for those meds and it takes about 10-20 stabs to get enough juice in there to block the pain!
I just spent about $6000 for a new implant and had 2 surgeries before it "took" and would be princess to la's queen regarding my crowns. I just can't have a little cavity...I have to have full-blown infections, etc. and need root canals and crowns and implants, oh my!
Dental insurance really stinks. Max payout annually is $1500 and the work I always have done seems to be at least $2k each time. So, I have to spread the work out over years which increases the problem. Just can't win for losing!
Fortunately, my teeth APPEAR to be healthy and pretty, so I suppose I'm very fortunate.
How do you feel about going to the Dentist? I had rather be doused with gasoline, set on fire and the flames put out with a salt lemon brine solution! (painful enough of an image to you?)
How much dental work have you had done on your mouth in your life so far? 15 years of dental work as a child/teen. The dentist I had as a child was very abusive (putting that kindly) and would slap you until you stopped crying. Thus my answer to #1.
Do you have plans to get anything major done to your teeth? I need LOTS of work but need heavy therapy to just step in the door to the demon's, oh, dentist office.
Insurance is a joke: Max annual where I work is $1k, life time 2,500. I think PEF's, which we have a policy there is $1,500. If your company offers Flexible Spending, I highly recommend contributing the MAX to it if you need dental work.
My dentist is a sweetie and very gentle.I'm lucky in that I have hard teeth with no cavities, but my two front teeth have caps as a result of getting knocked loose when I was a kid. They are old now and I may be looking at replacements in the near future.
My dental plan is okay in that it pays for 90% of most things, with a $100 deductable BUT it doesn't ocver crowns, so I never get to use it much. It is free though, as a retirement benefit from my former employer, so I can't complain.
As long as I get Novocaine and Nitrous Oxide, I could care less what they do! (I really think they should give GYN's a tank of Nitrous Oxide and women would never skip their Annual exam! LOL) Oh and pain meds for after if I have a root canal done! As a child,I had just a few very tiny cavities from overbrushing! I actually eroded the enamel off. (And chewing ice cubes was bad too!) Then I got married and started having kids and started grinding my teeth and that did a lot of damage!
Then they started taking out the old silver fillings and putting in the newer Herculite fillings and I had a root canal done poorly and they redid it and put a crown on it and that was like dropping a pebble in a pond! The ripple effect was enornous! Still having problems with it! I fired the intial dentist that screwed it up in the 1st place! The Moral of that story was to never try to retread a retread! Dental Insurance? What's that?
No matter how gentle, kind, or nice the dentist is, I have cried every time I have gone to the dentist. I hate it. I have insurance. I go. Ugh.
I am not too fond of the dentist either .... and I have to go today ...
Even with novacain and all other stuff .... it is the BILL that hurts the most.
Dental Insurance is worthless.
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