Rang the clinic looking for an appointment for a tooth that was giving me pain and I got an appointment that evening. Great stuff so far. Arrived and was impressed by the look of the place. Was seen to promptly by the nurse who took an x-ray and then into see the dentist. He advised the tooth was in quite poor condition and that he would remove the filling and put a temporary one in place. A root canal was looking likely which I sort of expected.
He removed the filling without anesthetic which was I thought odd. I was half expecting to have him hit a nerve and me hit the ceiling but thankfully didn't happen. Anyway filling removed he filled it in again and then I think when he was sealing the filling the pain started big time. He kept asking was I ok, to which I kept making pain noises.
Anyway he assured me that the pain would subside and that if it didn't, to call the clinic again for an emergency root canal. So off I went back out to the receptionist who gave me a return appointment 2 weeks later. I left the clinic in pretty much the same state I arrived in but at least thinking the pain will now go away. Wrong.
The next day I was in serve pain in work but kept thinking it would settle down. When I got home that evening I was still in pain despite taking pain killers so I phoned the clinic at 5.20pm
No answer. 10 minutes later tried again still no answer. This went on until 6.30pm (website says open until 9pm) when I gave up and went to the VHI emergency dental clinic. I was advised there to see an endodontist as the tooth was in a bad way.
End result, got a different dentist the next day who took out the temporary filling ( I forgot to mention that the filling mydental put in place didn'tfeel right either. I could feel a gap in the tooth. Surely not right??) and the new dentist put a better one in place who is now going to do the canal treatment. Thankfully out of pain and have more faith in the new dentist.
Lastly, mydental called me yesterday to say they could bring my appointment forward :-)
Queue for me to tell the receptionist of my experience and that I wouldn't be going back to which the reply was 'oh ok, thank you goodbye'. Nice. read more