@BritishTechGuru Oh wow. What kind of fancy eye insurance do you have? My eye insurance through my job is less than $5/month. I mostly opt into it because it's...insurance. Some years I don’t use it, some I do. But for less than $60/year, I’m at peace with the cost. Similar with dental insurance.
Honestly I can't remember and I can't remember exactly how much the work insurers wanted. I think it came to about $300 a year which is outrageous when as I said I can get a prescription for $70-$80 and a pair of glasses for $10 - $20. I've never opted into work optical nor work dental. It's just so much cheaper to brush properly, get checkups and go to a cheaper optician and buy glasses online.
according to dental insurance in the US wisdom teeth removal is considered a cosmetic surgery and they refuse to cover it. Then medical will only cover the operation partially.
So then your surgeon has to sell you anesthesia at whole sale because he deemed the operation with just local numbing as on par with torture.
Fuck The American Insurance companies and fuck this medical system that rather see you suffer so they can profit off you denying them.
holy shit are you like, okay? My surgeon refused to do the surgery cause it was unethical to do so, which is why he sold me the anesthesia at wholesale.
I'm so sorry you had to have them removed like that, I image it's more intense and psychological damaging than the movie A SERBIAN FILM.
@cosvak Bull shit. I removed thousands of 3th molars just with Ultracain (younger sister of Lido) Patients had no pain according to them and with much lower complications. Besides: the best and cheapest insurance for teeth is A GOOD TOOTHBRUSH. I kept saying this to all my patients for >40 years. Just fucking take care of them yourselves!!! An insurance just for trauma is recommended. Don’t shoot me I’m only the piano player🥺
@JohanDiederik @cosvak My experience was VERY bad. My dentist gave me a shot of lidocaine and I was like "Shouldn't I be numb? Am I supposed to feel pain, because I can feel everything and this feels very bad." I also have a high tolerance for pain, but this was unbearable.
He was pretty dismissive and was just like "it will kick in" and I was just like "oh uh okay then can we please stop and wait until that happens?"
He ignored me and continued cutting and digging away at the first tooth and finally got it out. Another wisdom tooth broke so he had to go digging around for the remainder of that. After the 3rd tooth, he went back to look at my X-rays and was like "looks like your roots are wrapped around nerves. You should have gone to an oral surgeon."
I was thinking bro, you're the one who took my X-rays and scheduled my appointment with YOU, so don't even try to pin this on me.
But I was in excruciating pain and in shock so I didn't say anything. I just got up and said I was fine with leaving the 4th wisdom tooth in place and got out of there as quickly as possible and never went back.
@JohanDiederik @cosvak Your dentist is an incompetent prick. I got all my wisdom teeth removed with local anæsthesia (intraligamentar) and I was in zero pain. I did pay for the shot, but it was like $50.
@cosvak wow! What a horrible experience. And 4 in one session? Well this can be done but afterwards it is not fine with eating and when a alveolitis occurs you are not happy. He should have studied the Xray more extensively. You always do that just for the nerve and sinuses etc. You didn’t formulate a complaint to him? Even in the Netherland one would have done that. It has to be said that an extraction gives a nasty feeling but no real pain should be felt.
@JohanDiederik @cosvak I was much younger and honestly didn't know enough to know if that was somehow normal and if I was just being a baby. I’m also still a very non-confrontational person, so I was just happy to get out of there. I walked home and slept it off over a long weekend and survived and didn't really think about it until some years later when I went to a new dentist for a standard exam and got X-rays and my dentist was like "You still have one wisdom tooth left. What's up with that?"
@cosvak Ohhh! That was a very bad experience for you. I am sorry to hear that. It is however not unusual that a 4 th! Molar shows up. Working in the Radiology appt. of the Amsterdam dental school as chef de Clinique we saw this fenomenen quite often. The same when I was in my own practice in Rotterdam. So it may not be to blame the first dentist. Does this help to regain a little bit of trust in dentistry as a whole? Not saying it was not a ‘forgotten’ tooth. XX
@JohanDiederik @cosvak I don’t have a problem with the dental industry. I just have a problem with that dentist. But no, it does not help me gain faith in him. He wanted to remove all 4 at the same time and the only reason he didn't is because I walked out in the middle of the procedure.
@cosvak O, I didn’t get this right. Sorry. I didn’t mean to defend this dentist. When you as a dentist decide to remove 4 in one session you have to be absolute sure the patient has had all the (right- up to date) information and understood it a 100%. Informed consent. I guess this was not done. Very sorry to hear and wise that you left the surgery.
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Als Antwort auf Alice McFlurry • • •And optical insurance is the biggest ever ripoff.
People are conned into paying a ton for oprtical insurance yet....
I can go to any optician for an eye eaxm and prescription and pay under $100. I can but glasses online using that prescription for under $20.
How is $50 a month for optical insurance anything but an utter scam?
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Als Antwort auf Alice McFlurry • • •according to dental insurance in the US wisdom teeth removal is considered a cosmetic surgery and they refuse to cover it. Then medical will only cover the operation partially.
So then your surgeon has to sell you anesthesia at whole sale because he deemed the operation with just local numbing as on par with torture.
Fuck The American Insurance companies and fuck this medical system that rather see you suffer so they can profit off you denying them.
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Als Antwort auf Alice McFlurry • • •holy shit are you like, okay? My surgeon refused to do the surgery cause it was unethical to do so, which is why he sold me the anesthesia at wholesale.
I'm so sorry you had to have them removed like that, I image it's more intense and psychological damaging than the movie A SERBIAN FILM.
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Als Antwort auf Alice McFlurry • • •I attribute that film for my ability to deaden myself when needed. The same night I watched that and cooled down with Human Centipede 2.
My mind is a cesspool of horrific movies both in genre and quality ;)
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Als Antwort auf Alice McFlurry • • •Besides: the best and cheapest insurance for teeth is A GOOD TOOTHBRUSH. I kept saying this to all my patients for >40 years. Just fucking take care of them yourselves!!!
An insurance just for trauma is recommended.
Don’t shoot me I’m only the piano player🥺
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Als Antwort auf Johan Diederik • • •@JohanDiederik @cosvak My experience was VERY bad. My dentist gave me a shot of lidocaine and I was like "Shouldn't I be numb? Am I supposed to feel pain, because I can feel everything and this feels very bad." I also have a high tolerance for pain, but this was unbearable.
He was pretty dismissive and was just like "it will kick in" and I was just like "oh uh okay then can we please stop and wait until that happens?"
He ignored me and continued cutting and digging away at the first tooth and finally got it out. Another wisdom tooth broke so he had to go digging around for the remainder of that. After the 3rd tooth, he went back to look at my X-rays and was like "looks like your roots are wrapped around nerves. You should have gone to an oral surgeon."
I was thinking bro, you're the one who took my X-rays and scheduled my appointment with YOU, so don't even try to pin this on me.
But I was in excruciating pain and in shock so I didn't say anything. I just got up and said I was fine with leaving the 4th wisdom tooth in place and got out of there as quickly as possible and never went back.
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Als Antwort auf Alice McFlurry • • •You didn’t formulate a complaint to him? Even in the Netherland one would have done that.
It has to be said that an extraction gives a nasty feeling but no real pain should be felt.
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