#about another dentist who gave his clients a bunch of unnecessary shit so he could upcharge them

[larnax]

like ok lemme give you a fucking recap of my Dentistry Experience

>be me 9ish. go to dentist for first time since i was 3 bc my mom spent all our child support money on plane tickets. dentist says you have three cavities so big we need to pull your teeth

>they put me on anesthesia that i say doesnt work. it doesnt work so im in excruciating pain while they yank out the three teeth

>i get switched to second dentist and a few years later after x-ray am told my canines are growing into the roof of my mouth and i need surgery and braces to have them fixed. dentist then says i can keep on the braces after i get my canines fixed so my teeth will be straight. i tell him i don't care if my teeth are straight and i want them off as soon as my canines are in the right place

>get the surgery and start going to second dentist. he sometimes cuts pieces of my tongue off and after his visits im in so much pain i cant speak. when i ask when i'm getting my braces off he tells me to stop being impatient and refuses to give me an answer

>eventually he says that my canines should be fine and i say ok please take the braces off. he says no because my teeth aren't straight. my mom says no because my teeth aren't straight.

>dentist welds a metal bar to the top of my mouth. it's positioned so that it cuts into my tongue leaving me with a permanent bloody painful wound in my mouth for the several years it's in despite repeatedly telling him and mom what's happening and begging for them to take it out. they say no because my teeth aren't straight

>dentist welds a metal bar behind my bottom teeth with so much glue that after i finally got another dentist to remove it years later they weren't able to get all the glue off and it took several more appointments. also just to straighten my teeth

>YEARS LATER i get the dentist to remove the metal bar. it leaves a scar on my tongue that hasn't healed almost a decade later.

>YEARS LATER i get the dentist to remove the braces.

>after that they immediately give me a retainer they say i need to wear all day. i say for how long they say for the rest of my life. i say Why. they say because otherwise your teeth won't stay straight

>i do not wear the retainer because i already didn't care about my teeth being straight before all this happened and sure fucking didn't now. so my canines are still crooked so yeah all of that was for nothing

#c.paradisi #uh ask to tag #recently i found this article #about another dentist who gave his clients a bunch of unnecessary shit so he could upcharge them #and the article was like yeah the usa has. idr exactly but theyre not considered medical professionals #so they dont require the same training or oversight doctors do #so theres just a ton of malpractice and most of its never caught or punished #and i was like ohhhh. yeah i guess that happened to me huh #what makes me insane is how clear i was from the beginning that i wanted them off as soon as the medical issue was resolved #and NOBODY EVER LISTENED TO ME. #i got tortured for YEARS and permanently scarred my tongue bc my mom wanted me to have straight teeth and a dentist wanted money #awesome! very cool! #ANYWAY. #im going to a normal dentist now and yeah all that shit was Not normal. #also its nice to be an adult bc while i was in for a cleaning the assistant was like you should get a retainer to straighten your teeth #and i said No 👍 and that was the end of it