I wanna find a new NHS dentist

silvercar

Is anything safe? who knows.

If I have a cavity it needs filling (or leaving eventually needing the tooth removed). So I broadly have 2 options, amalgam or white filling.

I personally think white fillings are safer than amalgam. I may be wrong but I have to make a choice. Amalgam looks ugly and gives off mercury fumes or white stuff is full of goodness knows what but hopefully its inert. What would you do?

Toothsmith

Depends on the size & position, but I'd have the most suitable material for the job, be it amalgam or composite. The last filling I needed was 4 years ago, and it was amalgam.

If I needed that same filling doing tomorrow, I would have ...........Amalgam!

If that same hole was in one of my childrens teeth I'd (smack myself round the head for feeding them too much sugar) and put in an amalgam.

As I see my children's teeth more often than I get my own looked at (occupational hazard - we forget to get our own teeth seen to!) I'd hope to catch that hole much earlier, and then I would put in a composite, and hope the artificial oestrogens in the material didn't turn him female

loopy_lou_6

thanks once again toothsmith you have put things in perspective for me at least. didnt mean to cause such controversy!

djohn2002uk

loopy_lou wrote:

thanks once again toothsmith you have put things in perspective for me at least. didnt mean to cause such controversy!

Don't think you caused the controversy. Seems to me one persons opinions caused that. The rest of the thread was very enlightening.

Sofa_Sogood

http://www.thisishull.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136525&command=displayContent&sourceNode=136235&contentPK=13368991

(Can a BG shorten this link if necessary please? T.I.A.)

Toothsmith

From the BBC Website today

shays_mum

Anyway, i would try going through my local yellow pages/newspaper to see if any dentists are taking on any NHS patients, worked for me. Also, i would repost in 'my local moneysavers' as there might be somebody in your local area who could point you in the right direction. Hope this helps, goodluck

Voyager2002

plumpmouse wrote:

Hi can someone clarify something for me.

Is a dentist not obliged to take on children on the NHS.

Ours has gone private so we don't go anywhere at the minute as we can't afford and as a result my son is not registered and nowhere wants to take him on.

Alas, no.

Here in Exeter I cannot find a dentist willing to treat my son (unless I also enrol as a private patient). The nearest dentist that would accept him is more than 20 miles away.

What I do not understand is why these private dentists can get away with it. Such behaviour should be rewarded by expulsion from the golf club, dog-pooh through the letter-box, slashed tyres and acid burns on their fancy cars ... Instead the community just accepts it and treats them as valued customers.

Toothsmith

And it's attitudes like that that from people too pig ignorant to understand the real issues that has allowed the government to get away with dismantling parts of the NHS.

frostyspice

Toothsmith - well done on continuing to attempt to explain the situation.

The trouble with people in this country is that they think their disposable income is to spend on stuff like Sunny Delight, Coke, ready meals, TVs in their kids' bedrooms, DVDs, video games and other crap. They think the boring stuff like dental healthcare and prescription charges should be paid for by the State. But do they want to pay the taxes necessary to fund the NHS? Do they hell. When will the British accept that our basic rate of tax is LOW!!! Go to Scandinavia, look at the fantastic standard of living, and then find out how much tax they pay!

Seems to me it's these people who are the greedy ones, not the dentists.