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Did anyone else have their teeth 'ruined' by health board dentists?

tightropetom

I seem to have bad memories of dentists during my shool years during the eighties. I had the wrong tooth pulled out by a dentist - had to go back the next day because I still had the same toothache and she pulled another out, this one actually was decayed, unlike the pristine one she had handed me the day before.

For 15 years, I refused to go to a dentist. It's a wonder my teeth are still in place!

My wife had one of her eye teeth pulled by her dentist as a child, because if she didn't "her teeth would grow crooked". The replacement tooth grew crookedly into the gap. Oh the irony... She also complains of jaw pain - went to a dentist recently and was asked what dental work she had done in the past because it had caused the problem she has now.

I've heard various anecdotes from other friends that seem to back up my theory that these were mini-Hitlers. Treatment was free so we should have been 'grateful' I suppose...:(

Anyone else suffer at the hands of these little Hitlers? Was it just another form of institutional abuse of minors? Or is that a leap too far?

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MonstaMash

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Why what would toffee do? What other foods are hard to eat with them?

Toffee would pull the delph out of your napper

Things like pocorn, peanuts etc. can get under the pallete & be irritating, so I avoid stuff like that.

username123

MonstaMash wrote: »

Not in my case...I had most of my front upper/lower teeth knocked out in a motorcycle accident...

As I was getting into the ambulance, I was picking them up off the ground & the ambulance guy said, " I don't think you're gonna need them mate", to which I replied, "they're my fookin teeth"

If you lose your teeth due to gum disease etc., I believe it can be detrimental to bone density but am open to correction on this

How long ago was this, what age are you, and what do dentists say about your jaw bone prognosis going forward? (Feel free not to answer or to approximate). Do you still have your own back teeth? Did they have to take the roots out, ie, were they smashed at the gum line?

You should really do an AMA (ask me anything)!

MonstaMash

It happened 15 years ago, I'm a year shy of a half century...

Jaw bone prognosis is good, had it wired & plates put in...couldn't afford implants, but they may have been an issue anyway as I had multiple minute fractures in the upper/lower sockets due to my face hitting the deck at high impact.

Have a grand total of 12 teeth left...3 upper, 3 lower, all back teeth...could be worse, I was a fugly bastid before the smash anyway

username123

Wow Monsta, you been thru the wars!! Well, at least you're not in pain now and that's the main thing.

Digs

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Another Eastern Health Board Dentist Survivor here:mad:

I ****ing told her i could still feel my gum after she had numbed it

then she starts drilling into my tooth i told her i can still feel it

and then she drilled into the nerve, i can still remember the pain 25 years later

put me off going to the dentist for years after

Not in Walkinstown by any chance? Same thing happened to me, she kept drilling as I squirmed and cried in pain and told me to shut up repeatedly. My mum could hear me in the waiting room and tried to see what was up but was put off.

As a result of that apart from being completely traumatised I got a really bad abcess and my jaw swelled really bad. My parents were absolutely livid, took the complaint as far as they could but got no satisfaction. That dentist was a sadistic bit*H.

Since then four of my cousins have qualified as dentists so my faith in them has been restored. If I came across that cow though I wouldn't be held responsible for my actions!

MonstaMash

username123 wrote: »

Wow Monsta, you been thru the wars!! Well, at least you're not in pain now and that's the main thing.

Pain is your friend, it let's you know you're still alive

Dancing With Myself

I hear they pull them instead of trying to save the tooth. I am so glad that I have all my teeth and that they are perfect. I will shortly be getting my only amalgam filling removed and replaced by a modern composite filling!! I will be even more perfect than I already am!

rwg

hate dentists - health board dentist in the eighties took out one of my teeth, used my chest as leverage for his knee - didnt go to a dentist for another 20+ years, was happy to see instruments have advanced, no leverage needed

Vito Corleone

My dentist gave out to me last time I was there cos of all the coke I drink (4 litres + a week). He said it was a miracle how I didn't have any cavities. I go private.

Butterface

Plek Trum wrote: »

Isn't it funny how a significant amount of this could / should have been avoided if everyone took responsibility for their own teeth and took good care of them?

Not in all circumstances, but certainly if people needed so so much work done then it could have been avoided? Just saying.... I see it everyday in work - everyone else is to blame for your own lack of effort. *rant over*

Edit: Not everyone but definitely SOME!

How does one avoid the way in which the teeth grow up through the gum? How is it possible to prevent teeth from growing up crooked?

A few times my mother drew attention to the fact that my bottom teeth were growing up crooked and each time the dentist dismissed. He said I wouldn't need braces when clearly one tooth was overlapping the other. In fact, my bottom teeth became more crooked over the years. My mother was always sorry she never forced the issue because in later years they couldn't afford braces for me. Luckily I've had work done on my top teeth recently to improve my smile and the bottom row is not as noticeable now!

I also had 3 baby teeth removed when I was a child. I was put to sleep by gas and woke up in the middle it!!!! They had to grab the gas and put me back to sleep. My mother said they laughed it off..

UCDVet

I don't trust dentists at all.

Went to a dentist and he told me my 'Wisdom teeth' needed to removed. He had an x-ray that showed them coming in wrong and if I didn't get them removed it would mess up all of my teeth, hurt like hell, and probably get infected. But other than that, my teeth were fine.

I left and went to another dentist. He told me my teeth were fine, except I had a small cavity in a tooth that didn't hurt. I asked about my wisdom teeth and he said they were nothing to worry about....but we'd better get that cavity looked at!

I left, with my cavity. That was.....16 years ago. My wisdom teeth came in perfectly fine on their own. Nothing was pushed, nothing hurt (maybe one or two days of mild tenderness in my gums....that's it), nothing was infected. And that cavity dentist #2 found....well, it's been 16 years and still not a problem.

If I were older at the time/if I had the information, I'd think about suing the bastards. Still makes me angry.

Femme_Fatale

I just remember the health board dentist I went to being an extremely unpleasant old man, but otherwise, teeth were treated fine.

Lollipops23

Bastard North Eastern Health Board dentist drilled into my tooth before he'd given the anaesthetic time to work....like 10seconds after he'd injected it.

I was 14 at the time, my mother had to yell at him to stop I was so hysterical. He then told me to go out to the waiting room and to "stop crying, or you'll scare the younger kids." Piece of work, it transpired several kids from my class had a similar experience with him.

Oh, and this was 2002, so not exactly the dark ages.

Teyla Emmagan

God, we must have been terribly posh. I don't think I was ever at a health board dentist. Just a dentist (how do you get referred to health board dentists in particular!?).

HomelessMidge

bodhrandude wrote: »

I had a tooth pulled at a dentist in Castlelawn Heights in Galway during the 1990s, I still to this day have the remains of this tooth in my gum, so not a great job done there. :mad:

April this year I had a tooth pulled in the dental hospital. Tooth cracked and he had to cut into the gum to get the rest back (got everything out in the end), big swelled cheek and pain for a week after that.

Then just last month had the same tooth on the opposite side taken out. This time the tooth was way worse, totally rotten through out and cracked to the point where it was barely protruding from the gum. My new brilliant dentist got it out in 5 minutes, the while tooth at that!

Yakuza

At the age of 12, I had braces put in. They were taken out after about a year and a half (with their job not done) because I changed to secondary school (entitlement to treatment ended once you left primary), they quickly lost interest and took them out, with the job not done right. Cue me having sh1tty crossed front teeth (and not really smiling ever in photos) for 30-odd years until now, where I'm half-way through a two-year treatment with braces (and will be €3500 lighter by the end!) but I'll have a semi-decent set of gnashers at last!

FizzleSticks

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