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Last weekend I had a wisdom tooth break and with it being a bank holiday weekend could not do anything until the Tuesday apart from take co-codamol for the pain. So Tuesday arrives and I ring the dentist 'sorry sir we cannot fit you in today, are you in a lot of pain??' , with the obvious answer being YES, they then told me they had an appointment slot in a MONTHS time , the girl then said give us a ring tomorrow and we will see what we can do.

So give them a ring on the Wednesday and finally manage to get an appointment for midday, the painkillers where doing nothing by now.  I though that I would never be happy to see a dentist but this time I was until he told me what treatment was needed, the wisdom tooth had to come out and another tooth that was playing up needed root filling :. Upon asking him what the root filling would cost he replied 'band C' which meant nothing to me so I said 'what's band C??' To which he replied £139   So I asked him can't you take that one out as well?? He said yes and that will cost you £16.50 to extract BOTH teeth ???

He successfully removed both the offending teeth, which took around an hour , the pain is still there but this is because the tooth requiring root treatment took some removing, and he gave me around 12 injections to numb the area, but it still hurt like hell, the wisdom tooth came out very easily : I go for regular check-ups and consider myself lucky to have an NHS dentist.

My ex has been trying to get in to see a dentist for weeks now. He ended up phoning a number given to him by said dentist, (who was his old dentist but because he hadn't been for more than twelve months they deleted him), and they gave him a couple of numbers of dentists that were 'taking on'. None of these dentists had room either !!

It's diabolical that we have such a shortage of dentists in this day and age. My own dentist is Polish and I have to talk to her through the assistant as I can't understand a bloody word she says and she can't understand me!!

I consider myself lucky, my old dentist went private and chucked everyone out who didn't want to be ripped off by the extortionate charges. Word then got around about a new practice opening up and that they were taking on new NHS patients, I got my application in vie E-mail and did not expect to hear anything in reply, but to my complete surprise they e-mailed me back around 16 months later, just before the surgery opened and told me to ring them as they were evaluating new customers, I got in and the rest is history, but by this time I had not seen a dentist in round 6 years and some extensive work was needed, but it was worth it in the end.

The dentist situation is a disgrace, unless you can afford to go private that is.

Ever get the feeling we are being pushed into taking out private medical schemes? Nothing wrong with that if you can afford it but for those who can't........

Yes Andy, my old dentist offered me a Denplan scheme, a monthly payment of x amount in return for dental treatment, I have since heard that these schemes are limited by the amount you pay per month and some treatment is not covered unless you pay top whack per month :, Ill stick with the good old NHS.

Ive got a phobia about dentists.  I always wondered though who on earth would want to be a dental assistant !  looking into all those people's mouths - uuurgh ! 

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