[ladygrace]

I have recently had to change to a new dentist. My former lady dentist on the North Shore had the dishonesty to charge $210 for a clean, scale, polish and check up. The shrewe will talk to you about anything under the sun except your dental treatment and can't even anethatise correctly. She botched the anasthetic and I was left withering in pain recently.Avoid this South American trained dentist at all costs.These people really make New Zealanders sick.

[SMILEYROSE]

The dentist chair isn't my most favourite place at the best of times, it's been such a long time since I last had a filling!

[Marty]

Dentists in Japan are a complete rip-off. Your first visit, they take the X-ray, one of those panarama shots where the machine actually takes shots of ya brain as well. Then the dentist sits you down and starts explaining what needs to be done. Now, I don't know about other people, but I have zero interest in wanting to know what the fucker is going to do, just do it, with the minimum of pain, zero pain would be better. After he's finished impressing you with his knowledge of ya teeth, he says "Well, it's all today, make another appointment for next week and we'll get started." "Wait a minute, doc, hows about we get started now, I'm ready, let's go!" "No, not today, you must be tired." So, the bottom line is, that today is just the x-ray and to listen to him tell you what he's going to do. So, you pay a lot of money, thank God for insurance, make another appointment and leave, still with that gapping hole in your tooth. The following week, you return, the doc, gets you in the chair, he looks at the x-ray from the week before, asks you to open your mouth and then he starts this "picking" shit. Yep, he's picking away at ya teeth, looking for other cavities or creating them, every now and then he says something like "Now, this may hurt a little." and you're like "Then don't fucking touch it!" After, he's finished picking his way around ya mouth, he asks you to rinse your mouth, then he says he's going to fix one of the cavities. "Great, doc, that's the fucking reason I'm here!" He asks if you would like a pain-killer, "Yes, and make it a double!" pretty soon, he's drilling, picking, drilling some more, then he's pouring cement into the hole, tells you not to move for a minute, walks away, probably calculating the price, comes back, polishes the filled tooth, asks you to rinse again, then sends you on your way, with a bill and your next appointment. The point is, that here in the country of the rising yen, you NEVER finish the dentist, you're going there for months, cos they won't just do two or three cavities and get it finished, they'll drag the whole process out. the maximum time you're in the clinic is like about 15 to 20 minutes, this goes on for months. You have to actually say to the dentist "Doc, I've been coming here for the past six months and you still haven't finished, people are starting to think we're queer for each other, when, in this century are you going to finish? I must paid for that new Benz, you're driving and the three trips to Hawii were probably from my pocket, when can I:sigh stop coming here!"