Five things I can't stand about going to the dentist: part 3
Another thing I can't stand about going to the dentist is when my tooth is killing me and the dentist can't determine the cause. Inevitably, many explanations are then offered which I know are not true. You know what they are…the usual list of suspects. They are always offered as possibilities because there is no immediate way to prove it wrong. My favorites are: 1) It could be your sinuses, 2) Maybe you grind your teeth at night and you don't know it, and 3) Maybe you have a microscopic crack that can't be seen. I have no confidence in any of these explanations. Why? I was given all of these explanations once and changed dentists because I was fed up. The first time I went to see the new dentist, he zeroed in on a tooth that hurt me, tapped it with one his dental tools, and voila! He found the source of the pain and said it was pretty obvious. If I would have listened to the first dentist, I would have had pain for a much longer time than I needed to.
posted by MedFriendly | 9:23 PM
3 Comments:
Do you also notice the difference in price from one dentist to the next!
No, never noticed that. Interesting.
I completely agree with you on this one.
I get occasional tooth pain that is sort of cavity like in one of my bottom molars. My dentist is firm in his belief that there is nothing wrong with the tooth. His only attempt at an explanation is that my upper molar is "talking" to my bottom molar about sinus pressure.
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