Delayed treatment and obsolete fillings: what dentistry in the USA surprised me with
'26.06.2021'
Source: Yandex Zen
Dentistry in the USA simply struck the author of the blog "I Live in America" on Yandex Zen his approach to dental work. Further - from the first person.
“Now I will write you a vicodine. Make an appointment in a month, ”the American dentist told me when I came to his clinic with acute toothache.
I could not believe that the treatment of a diseased tooth would be delayed for a month!
After filling out the card of a new patient (that is, they brought a card to me), escorting me to the special equipment and taking a panoramic picture, the girl at the reception said: “From you 100 dollars. Come back in a month. ” A silent scene ... But what about my tooth?
Then I mentally turned with a question to Mother Nature. Why are these teeth invented at all? No, well, that's understandable: to crush solid food. But maybe he should have come up with something better, more perfect, so to speak?
From the very beginning, the teeth did not give rest to us, nor to our parents. This is me about milk teeth.
Then the appearance of "permanent" (a word that is ridiculous).
Then the permanent treatment of these permanent ones. ABOUT! I just now realized that they are called “permanent” because they need to be constantly treated.
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The dental clinic becomes almost your home for you. And you must have a familiar dentist. So he delightedly picked his mouth.
It was a small digression about dental treatment in the homeland ...
Now back to the americans
Have you ever taken the kind of medicine that my dentist prescribed for me? My husband advised me to take the pill for the first time when I was at home. And only then I read how many terrible side effects there are. Among them are dizziness, and loss of consciousness, and ringing in the ears, and muscle cramps, and much, much more.
In the end, I did not take this medicine. Costed brought from Russia.
A week later, they called me from dentistry and joyfully informed me that the place was free. You can come for treatment. Apparently, someone despaired and pulled out his own tooth.
I had to remove the inflamed tooth root.
The treatment process looked impressive. So in Russia then it was not yet treated. At least me. Nice music played. The husband was sitting right there in the office. My support group. Each operation performed on the tooth was checked on a computer.
Price issue
For insurance, root removal and tooth treatment cost $ 400. Without insurance, it would have cost $ 900.
And I want to note that not every medical insurance includes the services of a dentist. My husband paid $ 500 a month for my health insurance in 2010. Now everything is much more expensive.
The saddest
My long-suffering little tooth fell apart after a couple of years. The American filling was kept without tooth walls, but the tooth walls, alas. Collapsed.
A lovely young female doctor at a dental clinic in St. Petersburg asked me in which country this seal was placed for me. The doctor didn’t know that I flew from the USA, but she said that it was an outdated technology, and in Russia teeth were not filled with BLACK fillings for a long time. Here you have the advanced American medicine.
Soon an implant appeared in the place of my long-suffering "American" tooth, but this is a completely different story.
Original column published in column «I live in America» on Yandex Zen
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