Thread: Ouch!!!

Adam is not telling the truth. Britons DO NOT get free Dentistry. It is not covered in its entirety by the NHS. If you are lucky you can find an NHS dentist who is cheaper than a private one, but still costly. However, because the NHS treat them shoddily, dentists are increasingly going private-only, and this means that many cannot find an NHS dentist. This is an increasingly typical scene.

Regardless, NHS or not, Dentistry in the UK is not free. If you are under 18 and in education, it is free. From then on, unless you have severe financial difficulties, you have to pay.

Even if you are a poor student like me

Really!!!! I thought it was free... But I have been private since 18 so maybe they changed the rules or something? This was 8 years ago lol...

Either way most dentist are going rpivate because they make more money too!!

Well I have not had this pain again (fingers crossed) so maybe it was something weird causing it which has now gone away? I hope

Yes, these things sometimes heal by themselves.

Yeah I get that sometimes too Adam it's like a sharp prick in the tooth and then it disappears. I noticed this comes and goes sometimes it hurts to chew and then the vast majority of the time I have no problems. It seems to be just something that comes and goes.

When I went for a check up like 6 months or so ago, the dentist said I have high alkali in my saliva, rather than acid, which most people have?

Which means my teeth are very strong and repair better than someone with high acid? Maybe there was a small cavity, but now it is repaired? I don't know, I don't know too much about dentistry.