Toothless

I discovered why so many of the lower class are toothless, its the dentists, and bad medicaid insurance.

I was assigned a dentist, so I called to make an appointment to fix my filling. Well, there was no waiting area but 10 people waiting. I was finally seen an hour after my appointment. He pretended to clean my teeth, he didn't touch the inside of my teeth, or the very back molars with his tooth brush. He drilled the remaining part of the filling out, and then kind of put a new one in. I understand you don't have to recline a chair to fill a tooth, but thats the way its always been done to me. I don't know how long you have to let a filling set, but it has usually been a few minutes. There was no bite test, no smoothing, no making sure all the nooks were filled. Just a "Well, thats it."

I was drinking some water 4 hours later, and swished it around in my mouth because there were little bits of filling grit coming out from the space between my treated tooth and its neighbor, and then there was a BIG bit of filling, the whole brand new filling to be exact. So I'm back to a hole in my tooth, except now that the hole was drilled in it hurts like crazy. I wasn't even flossing, I was swishing water around in my mouth!

So, we called to see if we could switch to a different dentist to get it fixed, because how stupid do you have to be to go back to the guy that put a filling in that only lasted 4 hours. Well, we could switch dentists, but then medicaid won't pay for the repair.

I hate that it is okay in our society to treat poor people as non-entities. I hate being treated like a non-entity, I'm sure I'm not the only one.