Purely personal, partly trying to recompense for previous mentions of the subject.
The current postwar mess, with every business overworked and understaffed, means a lot of waiting and missed appointments and broken promises. But after you wade through the shit, the actual performance is excellent.
In the previous postwar mess around 1948, industries tried to inform us about the situation. Now it’s all Kafka all the time. No information ever escapes from the power centers. We must be totally uninformed and totally unprepared for every problem. That’s how Deepstate wants us.
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In 2017 the dentist referred me for a biopsy which was both unnecessary and botched. The oral surgeon left some scar tissue in the middle of my palate that has never smoothed out. After that, I lost trust and stopped the regular cleaning appointments. I kept flossing daily, but flossing wasn’t enough.
By last June the trouble was constant, and I finally gummed the bullet, apologized, and asked meekly to get back in. They agreed, probably because I had been a regular paying customer for 25 years before 2017. At that point they did some x-rays and diagnosing, and made the first available appointment for cleaning in November. I went in November, but they still didn’t do actual cleaning. Instead they did more poking and prodding and made an appointment for DEEP cleaning in March of this year.
DEEP cleaning is what the name says, pretty much the same as regular cleaning except it goes down onto the roots.
Between November and March, being an incurable hypochondriac, of course I googled the procedure and found the usual pattern. American sources are alarmist, listing the horrible potential problems. British sources are much less panicky.
Well, it’s done now, in two sessions of two hours each. It was definitely more annoying and uncomfortable than regular cleaning, but the results correspond to the British NHS predictions.
After each session, I had a bit of discomfort for a few hours, no pain, then the next morning everything felt close to normal. NO BIG DEAL.
I made a point of thanking the hygienist for doing a VERY HARD JOB, and doing it expertly.
Unlike the 2017 biopsy, this was an entirely positive experience at the literal sharp end. Now I’m all clean. No more aches and pains, no more constant bad taste, no more loose teeth. The only negative part was the 9-month gestation period before the actual work, but that’s pretty much universal among many industries now.
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