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Do you avoid the dentist due fear or finances?

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Lugum

For 10 years i didn't go because of lacking finances, until last week and today. The dentist was new and nice, didn't say my teeth were that bad. The woman who cleaned my teeth today not so much, on a scale of 1 to 10 on being bad, it was a 10.

And apparently i got some big gaps in my gum or whatever (which apparently doesn't grow back anymore unless you do transplantations?).
But she makes me want to go twice a year to her on top of a yearly dentist control when you explained your finances, and when i was 12 the dentist then told me at my rate i would have false teeth by 20 (which never happened) so i really don't know if i should also just take this with a grain of salt.

My logic would be to just take the yearly dentist checkup and if he finds the need for the teeth cleaning lady then i should go.

And how long have you not gone?

1 month ago*

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SHIV

"hrrmmmmm" (stern look) "you havent been flossing, have you..."
"..y..yes i hav-"
"DON'T LIE TO ME"

That. Thats why :(

1 month ago
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Lugum

Yeah sometimes they treat you like a kid, when they can be nicer. :/

There must be one out there for you.

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sengda2000

If your country has a compulsory law for all the workers get the medical checkup, and if it includes dental checkup as well, no need to avoid the latter checkup. (This is what happens in my country.) If you doubt if this dentist makes you undergo unnecessary treatments, visit somewhere else and compare the results.
Also, I don't have to avoid a dentist because my brother is one of them.

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Lugum

We dont have that.

We pay 150-250 a month, plus 350 own risk (you use that up, you pay it then rest becomes "free") but dental costs are barely covered anymore because our government don't care.

Same as how we had free swimming lessons for children in schools, they cut tthat of,f now 25 procent of this generation doesn't know how to swim.

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sengda2000

Even in my country the medical checkup comes up once in two years, the dental checkup available only after being 30 in age. Haven't had nationally provided dental checkup for more than years.
Removing free swimming lessons is cruel... Swimming is directly related to the survival in case an accident happens. When the government cuts off the welfare and education with the logic of money, the damage and consequence comes down to the people who would have get the benefits.

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