Yeah, another rant, I have made a mental note to bring a happier tone to the blog honest…
I have dozens of children(approx.), as you are no doubt aware, and one of my girls had toothache a few months ago. Off we went to the dentists who prescribed her some antibiotics for abcesses. She finished the course but the abcesses were still there and the toothache had returned. She had a regular checkup appointment anyhow so along we went ot it, where the Polish dentist told us she needed 4 fillings, ok we booked her appointments. She also got another appointment for later that week to have her abcesses drained.
This involves drilling through the tooth into the gum and letting the pus drain out, yummy! But they don’t fill teh tooth afterwards, it’s left open. So every time the kid eats anything she is in real pain as food gets stuck in the holes etc. Well anyway we get round to her filling appointments and the dentist says “Oh, those can’t be filled. They are only baby teeth anyway we can leave them open or extract”
What the fuck!!!! So my daughter had to go through 6 weeks of painful days only to lose the teeth anyway! So they pulled the teeth, there’s no way I was letting her continue in the pain as she had been.
Why couldn’t they have taken the teeth way back at the beginning, don’t say it’s anything to do with abcesses cause I’ve had a tooth pulled that was abcessed. They give you antibiotics to kill off infection. Also why couldn’t they give an appointment sooner than 6 weeks after the initial hole drilling? This is some kind of sick joke on the part of this dentist I think. Anyone ever had a kid with toothache to look after? It’s not a nice thing to go through. There’s nothing you can do for them except have loads of cuddles ready.
Now, part 2… The eldest kid had to go in for a filling(I know it sounds like we are a family of decay but it’s just coincidence it’s all happened at the same time!) She has issues with people prodding at her though. We once took her to the doctors to look at dome dry skin on her foot and she wouldn’t even let him see the skin, let alone touch it, brat. Anyhow, having forewarned the dentist of this(her appointment was later in the same day as the previous story) I was ready for a general or whatever. No we can’t do that she said after a half hour of trying to persuade the kid it’s not that sore getting a needle in the gum. (The younger kid was there telling her the same thing, to no avail.) So now we await an appointment at the hospital for her to be gassed and the work done. What a load of shite.
In Ayrshire & Arran you can pretty much walk in to any (Scottish) dentist and have whatever needs done, done (ok that’s not entirely true, you will probably need to register.) If you need gas you might need to get an appointment on a certain day as the dentists don’t have an anaesthetist in every practise. The service is so much better though in the west than in Aberdeen. Private dentisty practise is almost unheard of.
There is more to Aberdeen than the floundering and inept NHS though so I won’t be heading back to Ayrshire in too much of a hurry! 
btk
