I've also noticed they've stopped using UV activated filling compound and now use some sort of 2-pack epoxy.
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I've also noticed they've stopped using UV activated filling compound and now use some sort of 2-pack epoxy.
Another thing that pisses me off with NHS places is the rate of turnover of dentists. I honestly have seen a different person every time since Dr Hammond retired and sold the business around 10y ago. Imagine getting a different brickie for every 5 courses of bricks in your new extension?
Your lucky to get an NHS dentist! all private cash operations round here.
Well, i've sent an email to BUPA Guiseley, so there will be a space opening up at the NHS place for someone hopefully. I need the consistency of seeing one person and one only.
I was bumped off NHS dentistry when my excellent dentist (the only one I'd had) retired. After a few years of expensive, and poor-quality, private treatment I moved somewhere else as I was lucky to find a NHS place.
In the first two years I was seen by four different dentists; the first three were young enough to be newly qualified. I believe this was an advantage, as they all viewed the state of my mouth differently and they were all very diligent and thorough.
After two years I got the owner of the practice, (still NHS). I have no idea how good he is at dealing with things in my mouth, but he is a great communicator and, (as a former hospital radiographer), he was able to tell me which was the best hospital for the surgery that I needed.
I had a dentist by the name of Hammond; he was originally with the NHS, but went private at the time when a lot of dentists did so. He offered a very good deal, so I stuck with him. In fact, his insurance scheme even covered a gold crown on one tooth, which would have cost about £600 at prices from around 20 years ago.
He had some financial schemes on the side; I was never invited to "invest" (presumably because I obviously didn't have any substantial financial resources), but many of his patients did lose a lot of money. He has finished his prison sentence now, and has been struck off by the General Dental Council. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-36464141
The crown was done well, as was all his treatment in the earlier days, but I did notice that his 6-monthly routine examinations of my mouth seemed to become increasingly cursory in the years leading up to the time when I got a letter informing me that he would no longer be practising.
I've now got another private dentist, who is very good, but not cheap.
Today we have registered with a private dentist, nhs dentistry in wales is falling apart and a call to ours revealed they had no dentist and only a receptionist.
She said she went on holiday for 2 weeks and returned to find the practice empty, she is still paid to sit there and answer the phone and not make appointments! Even the private dentist there has scarpered.
So appointments made with another private practice - the first appointment we could have is early June. At least we feel safer if something does break or go bad.