Scary UK dentist experience

I think that's possible--It had occurred to me as well.
I wonder what kind of treatments?  Just curious...

I was under the impression that peridontal disease was quite common.  I struggle with gum health myself even though I brush 3 times a day, floss--sometimes more than once a day--and used a waterpik as instructed by my dentist with an anti-bacterial agent in the water.  But he never wanted to do any expensive treatments to my gums.

My dad had serious peridontal disease.  Most people have problems, but if it is serious you might need root scaling. 

Basically you know how they scrape the tartar from your teeth? 

Imagine that done to your roots.  My dad had it done once and he now brushes three times a day, lots of flossing, lots of water piking, lots of weird brushy things. 

My dentist likes to fill in cavities when they are tiny too, before they cause problems for me.

One time when I was little, my mom was told I had two cavities, she brought me to get them filled and they couldn't even find them again! I had no more cavities until I was 22 and had started grinding my teeth.

I was told that periodontal disease is pretty common too.

Saying UK dentist is very unfar.. Hes a dentist. Who really knows what he seen.

Riiight... I'm simply stating a fact. It was scary. It was in the UK. And as far as I know it was a dentist. I've only had good dental experiences in the States. I certainly haven't said all UK dentists are scary. Not sure what the point is here.

Everyone is scaring me in here lol, im moving on June 20th to England... and i always have mouth problems.

But once in washington state, half the teeth on the side of my mouth went loose, like ready to fall out, so i went to the dentist, and was told i had a tumor and was told i needed to remove the teeth and tumor, so i made the appointment and went the day of to have it done, and another doctor was there telling me that my doctor had been fired for malpractice, and was told i had no tumor, my teeth tightened up a month later , and i never had that problem again. weird.

Might be a good idea to have a thorough check up and any needed work done before you leave the states.

Conversely, you may find that you have a good dentist experience in the UK!  I registered with the first NHS dentist that we phoned up - not far from where we live, no waiting list.  She is every bit as good as my US dentist was, except she's certainly nowhere near as wealthy as my US dentist was.  Hmmmmm.

I was told by my UK dentist that I have 4 cavities to be filled ( my first ever). I went and had one filled and was told to come back in a few months for the other three. Now I'm visiting the States and went to my dentist that I used to go to there. He did a full panoramic x-ray ( because my UK dentist would not release my copy of my x-ray for me to take).  He discovered that I have....  ZERO cavities.  I find this truly frightening. I paid 70 pounds to have the first filled and was willing to pay for the others as well. I am not sure what to do now in regards to going back to my UK dentist, especially as I will not be going back to the states for almost a year now. 

Dohhhh...in the past and to a certain extent still,uk NHS dentists were paid on a piece rate basis so the more filling and extractions they did,the more they got paid. Some of them may still operate this way. I always recommend avoiding full NHS dentistry. Go to a decent area or town centre and find a dentist that does part NHS/part private. You may have to pay a little extra but at least you have a chance of good treatment. It is common practice in the NHS that they dont want to share or release info/test results/x rays to patients. Its a condescending attitude that they have. Id hang on to your us xray,see your uk dentist for his opinion on it and challenge him.

Dohhhh...in the past and to a certain extent still,uk NHS dentists were paid on a piece rate basis so the more filling and extractions they did,the more they got paid. Some of them may still operate this way.

No. They don't. The new contract did away with the "drill and fill for cash in the till" thing.

No. They don't. The new contract did away with the "drill and fill for cash in the till" thing.

Yes I'm well aware of that. Whilst contracts can change over night it can take longer to change mind sets....