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Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: Unorthodox on April 12, 2016, 09:51:45 PM

Title: How often do you visit the dentist?
Post by: Unorthodox on April 12, 2016, 09:51:45 PM

Heading to the routine check, usually makes me sick for a few hours.   :(

Title: Re: How often do you visit the dentist?
Post by: Rusty Edge on April 12, 2016, 11:13:32 PM

Twice a year for regular checkups, but it doesn't stop at that because there may be some spot fillings, or a couple visits to put a crown on a tooth that has too many patches already.

So twice a year minimum. Yes, there was a period in my life when I neglected that, and wound up spending more time in the dentist's chair in the long run. So- choose and perish.

Dentistry has changed so much in my lifetime. Fluoridated water wasn't universal. Same with toothpaste and rinses. brushes weren't ergonomic. Drills weren't water cooled with pre-warmed water. Injections, if you got them, weren't preceded by swabs of lidocaine.

But I have a conditioned response to this stuff, and a flinch. It's psychological.

Title: Re: How often do you visit the dentist?
Post by: Lorizael on April 13, 2016, 02:44:02 AM

I honestly can't remember the last time I went to the dentist. It's been years, certainly. Gulp.

Title: Re: How often do you visit the dentist?
Post by: Rusty Edge on April 13, 2016, 03:53:46 AM

Well there's a check-up. These days they have sedation dentistry, so that they can put you out as in a surgical procedure, and fix it all at once. You can find them, okay I'm thinking yellow pages, but I suppose by Google.

You probably don't have the money for that. Dentistry schools offer discount services, much the same as beauty schools. You could look for one of those.