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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
I'm frustrated today. Last spring I saw a new dentist because mine retired. It was a mess throughout with a need to remind the dentist twice to wear gloves before sticking his hand in my mouth and a crown that wasn't made right and a very painful experience with the temporary being put in by someone who'd never done it before.
Today I saw a new dentist and I need a bunch of things done. I wouldn't care about any of them except that I have to have that crown and the filling no-gloves dentist put in re-done because they weren't done correctly and as they are I'm at risk for infection and a root canal. I've had some discomfort in there off and on but I thought it was just my tooth-grinding.
I want to fight the dentist who screwed up for my money back since I have to pay the full price for the one I'm getting in 2 weeks as my insurance only re-does crowns every 5 years, not every 6 months, but am not sure who to complain to. Hopefully I can figure it out and win.
At least I like the new dentist and the office. I just wish I wasn't going to be paying so much quite so soon.
Oh well.
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I'm so sorry. I had a dental issue early Feb. of this year. The owner dentist hired a new dentist. I got the new one. I needed a crown I think, and he was doing all the prep work for the temporary. Then, I don't know what he did; neither he nor the hygienist were paying much attention because next thing I knew, I had swallowed a dental burr. Even worse, neither that dentist nor the hygienist reported it. Dentist said you'll be OK, sent me on my way, and the next day the owner had found out, called and told me I should have been sent to see and doctor and get x-rays right away.
God, that was awful. I could tell the owner felt bad (and didn't want the pants sued off him). I had to go daily for x-rays to a clinic, until the burr had worked it's way out of my body.
I did end up getting the crown and dental work associated with it for free and the dentist also threw in a dental nightguard. I don't grind my teeth at night, I don't think; H has never heard it, but I do notice waking with my teeth clenched hard, which has been expensive and resulted in many broken teeth and crowns. I am hoping this nightguard helps; so far, it's a little too soon to tell. I remember when I got my ulcer surgery the surgeon asking about things that potentially could fall off during that surgery, and I mentioned the temporary crown. Luckily, it stayed on through surgery, hospitalization, enough recovery that I could finally get the permanent crown placed. Now, though, I get VIP treatment there, and only the owner works on me. If our dental insurance doesn't cover something for me, they take care of it and don't charge.
The GI doc said the dental burr didn't cause the ulcer and didn't cause the perforation, especially as I was regularly taking NSAIDs for fibro & and had ulcer-causing bacteria
Heliobacter pylori, and I wasn't treating the ulcer since I had no symptoms. He said the ulcer perforation would have happened anyway, but the dental incident could have sped up the timeline, stress, whether physical, mental or both not being good for ulcers. And I had a ton of other stress in my life at the time - financial, parenting, having to pay a fortune for new contacts, helping my daughter make sure she had Valentine's Day cards for all her classmates, etc.
Yeah, 2018 really has been a year for the dogs for me.
