Toothsome (not Dracula, no)

[desperance]

I have a new tooth.

Or, at least, I have a replacement tooth.

Which is all good - I love my new tooth! for it is interestingly shaped, and sharp! - except, it's way at the back of my mouth, and the one it replaces hadn't been there for a while, and - well, frankly, I keep biting the inside of my cheek.

Ouchie.

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But wait! You're in England, right?

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I am assured by my conservative relatives that the NHS is so bad that English citizens cannot go to the dentist, at all, not even for routine checkups, not even if they're well-to-do stockbrokers who could afford to pay for it out of pocket, because there are simply not enough dentists in the UK due to your Socialized Medicine!

Surely they are not deluded!!?!?!? (My Holland icon will have to make do b/c I don't have a representative quote for Albion...)


(PS: I am still waiting impatiently for my copy of Bridge of Dreams, because I am out of new good books and want something good to rec. I have lots of dreck to disrec and mock, but that's not quite the same...)

PPS:

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I expect I will have the same experience when I can finally scrape together the money to get my broken molars fixed, but I hadn't thought about it until you said so. This is a good forewarning.

Re: PPS:

[desperance.livejournal.com]

It really hadn't crossed my mind at all; I feel like a child, unable to control one of the simplest of bodily functions. Chewing should not be difficult, damn it! Nor harmful...!

Re: But wait! You're in England, right?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Tragically, your conservative relatives are pretty much right, though very much for the wrong reasons. My own beloved dentist joined the great exodus from the NHS a couple of years back; I could have stormed off in a huff as some of my friends did, only to find that the NHS guys they then signed up with did exactly the same thing a year later; I chose to stay, and pay a monthly insurance. The point is, though, dentistry was never entirely encompassed within Socialised Medicine; I'm not sure why not, but we always had to pay something. Then the ratdammed Blair government introduced new contracts which no dentist in his right mind would've signed, and behold: they didn't. So yup, NHS dentistry is in crisis, but it's self-induced and due to lack of proper Socialisation.

And oh, after a build-up like that, I do hope you enjoy Bridge of Dreams...