Body modifications??

Ha ha! For a moment I thought you wanted an AI generated body! Sod’s Law, we would get elephant teeth and have to get them filed down under local anaesthetic.

I sympathise with you about going to the dentist. Mine is quite good, as far as dentists go, and they always listen to me about how I would like them to proceed. I think this government has given up on seriously addressing the NHS Dentist shortage. It is ridiculously unaffordable for most people to go privately. 

I either have to afford it, or do what my gr, gr aunt did and oik them out with a knitting needle.

I just tried looking for NHS dentists online, the list was years out of date, they listed my old dentist, he's stopped doing NHS work and I'm not paying him for his attitide and poor service, or his snooty reception staff. 

All the seem to want to do these days is try and get you to have implants and cosmetic work, they don't seem to have any real interest in teeth. |I also find it weird and wrong that its cheaper when going private for them to remove teeth than fill them?

My dental practice went fully private a few years ago but my dentist tries to minimise the cost for treatment where possible, by recommending that I need only yearly checkups and can probably do without the scale and polish.

Years ago I switched to the Braun Oral B Plaque Remover electric brush, and along with flossing and cleaning between my teeth with interdental sticks, it seems to be doing a good job of preventing tartar build up. I am probably a bit obsessive about my teeth, so I do spend a lot of time brushing and flossing.

The trouble is as I get older, my teeth are more liable to break, and I already have had two molars replaced with porcelain crowns, at nearly £1000 a piece. The alternative, in the unlikely event of finding an NHS dentist, are silver coloured crowns that I would probably have to pay for anyway, albeit at a cheaper cost. My dentist says that if I avoid biting on hard nuts and things like that, my teeth shouldn’t break, so that is what I am doing in the hope of avoiding another crown. 

I don’t know how much my dentist charges for extractions, but mine has different prices for fillings depending on the size and material used to fill. I wonder if it is cheaper and easier for the dentist to extract a tooth than to do some fillings?

I think even the name of some dental practices implies an emphasis on cosmetic appearance rather than dental health. Many are called things like “ Loughview Dental and Implant Clinic”, which implies that the implants aren’t dental surgery. The outside appearance of these clinics undermines my confidence that the health of my teeth matters.

My dental practice went fully private a few years ago but my dentist tries to minimise the cost for treatment where possible, by recommending that I need only yearly checkups and can probably do without the scale and polish.

Years ago I switched to the Braun Oral B Plaque Remover electric brush, and along with flossing and cleaning between my teeth with interdental sticks, it seems to be doing a good job of preventing tartar build up. I am probably a bit obsessive about my teeth, so I do spend a lot of time brushing and flossing.

The trouble is as I get older, my teeth are more liable to break, and I already have had two molars replaced with porcelain crowns, at nearly £1000 a piece. The alternative, in the unlikely event of finding an NHS dentist, are silver coloured crowns that I would probably have to pay for anyway, albeit at a cheaper cost. My dentist says that if I avoid biting on hard nuts and things like that, my teeth shouldn’t break, so that is what I am doing in the hope of avoiding another crown. 

I don’t know how much my dentist charges for extractions, but mine has different prices for fillings depending on the size and material used to fill. I wonder if it is cheaper and easier for the dentist to extract a tooth than to do some fillings?

I think even the name of some dental practices implies an emphasis on cosmetic appearance rather than dental health. Many are called things like “ Loughview Dental and Implant Clinic”, which implies that the implants aren’t dental surgery. The outside appearance of these clinics undermines my confidence that the health of my teeth matters.