I think I can top all that.
Until this incident, I thought I was thought in a dentist's chair.
One of many of my dentists turned out to be my worst nightmare.
My dentist told me that one of my old crowns needed replacement. He physically "hammered" the old crown out. The procedure felt like he was using one of those jack hammers used to cut concrete. After I paid for the new crown and after he put it in, he told me that I had bone infection above the tooth which was holding the crown. Before I went to a specialist for surgery he hammered out the new crown, also. During the surgery the surgeon practically chiped away my tooth to get rid of the infection. In the middle of the surgery, my mouth full of blood, the surgeon told me that she could not continue, because my tooth was broken and she could not shave it down enough to get rid of the crack. I am pretty sure that the main dentist cracked my tooth during the hammering process. I still had to pay the surgeon for the partial prcedure. I asked for my money back from the main dentist, but he did not budge. I reported him to ADA, but they came up empty as far as finding any fault with his operation.
But, I have to tell you that this was the only time I cried in a dentist's chair.
The other incident was with a different dentist. During my root canal, she was training an assistant. The medication the assistant put in my roots to kill the roots spilled out into my mouth. The dentist did not say anything and the assistant did not know any better. I asked to rinse my mouth, yet I was told to keep my mouth open. The stuff remained in my mouth during the whole prodecure—about 45 minutes. Same evening, inside my mouth started peeling and turning brown. I left a message on their machine that night and went there first thing in the morning. By that time, half of inside my mouth was peeling and ended up blistering. I questioned them several times, but all I was told that they put hydrogen peroxide in my mouth. The dentist played it down and minimized the situation. It took me a while to research about what could happen, but I gave up and forgot about it.
The bad part about dentistry is that you never know what they are doing to you, and if anything goes wrong, it is your word against theirs.
So, good luck to all of us.
neye: