Remember a week ago when I went to New Dentist and she told me I had eleven cavities and needed a root canal?
And this was after Sad Faced but Cheery Dental Hygienist had told me I had great teeth? Remember how I laughed in her face? Well, not twenty-four hours later I’d gotten two emails from her – including one asking me to evaluate my experience – and I was no longer laughing. Partly because I’d actually read the treatment plan and looked at the final dollar amount – approximately THREE GRAND!!! And partly because I started having phantom pains in my mouth – but not where I needed the work. So I called my awesome Old Dentist in California and left him a long rambling message about my current teeth saga and asked him to call me back when he was back in the office. He called me last night. He’s awesome. First we both laughed about the situation. Then we laughed some more. Then, when I said Mom and Husband totally thought it was a scam, he very diplomatically said – and I’m totally paraphrasing here - that he’d hate to bad mouth another dentist’s practice but that some anomalies on teeth show up as shadows on x-rays and that some dentists interpret those shadows as cavities and that a patients hygiene and past history needed to be taken into consideration and could I send him the treatment plan and the x-rays and he’d take a look at everything and compare them to my old x-rays free of charge. Because Old Dentist - who I will now be calling Nicest Dentist Ever - is the nicest guy around! So today, I have to go to New Dentist, pay the Nineteen dollars and ten cents I owe them and ask for a copy of my x-rays without laughing or cussing or crying. Three things I am totally likely to do in stressful situations. Because, even thought I think that they might be scamming me, I hate to make people feel bad and I HATE confrontations and I particularly hate having to ask for something from someone who may or may not be scamming me that I totally need because, if I don’t have Nicest Dentist Ever look over my x-rays, I’m pretty sure I’m going to dream my teeth are falling out from now until they totally do. Today is going to be awesome. Totally going to reward myself with something gross and bad for my teeth and me after I get my x-rays from New Dentist. Who am I kidding? I’m totally going to reward myself with something gross and bad for me before going to get my x-rays from New Dentist. I may already have eleven cavities and need a root canal and life is freakishly short so what’s wrong with starting with the bad stuff right now. I had popcorn for dinner last night. Nothing is off the table with me. Nothing.
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