Episode 75: My dentist showed me the same two sets of x-rays every three months for fourteen years and the new office says my chart was closed in 2011
Submitted by Bev — Wichita, Kansas. 61. His office was in a strip mall in Wichita, between a nail salon and an insurance agent, and I sat in that chair every three months for fourteen years. It started in 2009. I had bleeding on the lower left, and he used the word pocket, which is what they call the space that opens up between a tooth and the gum when the bone underneath starts to give. He said if we stayed ahead of it I would keep the tooth. Staying ahead of it meant four visits a year instead of two. My plan covered two. The other two were three hundred and forty dollars apiece on my own…
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