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Sausage
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- Oct 17, 2021
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Hi. Been a long time getting round to sorting this out. I posted a thread on here back in September. I had an abscessed tooth which needed extraction and was incapable of allowing the regular dentist to do it under local anaesthetic. Was referred to the hospital and due to a string of errors by the original dentist, I was discharged from hospital just before Christmas having received no treatment.
As it turns out I have quite a list of necessary works. The LL7, UR7, UL7 LR7 and LR8 all require work, two extractions, two root canals and two fillings at the time of diagnosis (November). One of those is broken at the gum and will require surgical extraction. Lots of fun to look forward to.
My problem is that I really do not want to go back to this dentist after the runaround spanning over 3 months and 6 appointments which culminated in a complete dead end and the necessity to start back at square one. However they are the only one I could/can find willing to take on new NHS patients without signing up to a very long waiting list, and I cannot currently afford to go private for this amount of work.
So I was hoping someone might be able to point out which strings to pull and which buttons to push to get into the sedation dentist clinics under the NHS, if there are some other pathways in without having to go back to that dentists chair again and hope this time they get it right?
Current circumstances are the abscess has, thank god, drained and not returned. Obviously sensitivity to cold foods and drink in some of the teeth but otherwise painless. Submandibular lymph node behind the previously abscessed tooth is still a huge swollen bulge but mostly unnoticeable ie painless. So not super urgent to get treated immediately but I do need to stop putting it off and get it all done. So now is that time and this time I’m going to do it.
As it turns out I have quite a list of necessary works. The LL7, UR7, UL7 LR7 and LR8 all require work, two extractions, two root canals and two fillings at the time of diagnosis (November). One of those is broken at the gum and will require surgical extraction. Lots of fun to look forward to.
My problem is that I really do not want to go back to this dentist after the runaround spanning over 3 months and 6 appointments which culminated in a complete dead end and the necessity to start back at square one. However they are the only one I could/can find willing to take on new NHS patients without signing up to a very long waiting list, and I cannot currently afford to go private for this amount of work.
So I was hoping someone might be able to point out which strings to pull and which buttons to push to get into the sedation dentist clinics under the NHS, if there are some other pathways in without having to go back to that dentists chair again and hope this time they get it right?
Current circumstances are the abscess has, thank god, drained and not returned. Obviously sensitivity to cold foods and drink in some of the teeth but otherwise painless. Submandibular lymph node behind the previously abscessed tooth is still a huge swollen bulge but mostly unnoticeable ie painless. So not super urgent to get treated immediately but I do need to stop putting it off and get it all done. So now is that time and this time I’m going to do it.