18th Jun 2008
People who complain should be shipped to the Dark Ages
A co-worker lost part of a filling in a tooth, so went to the dentist yesterday. Today he was bitching about it to another guy…
They had to take an x-ray of the teeth, and it’s just they sit you down and cover you up and take a picture and you’re done. And that part of the bill was $50!
Let’s get some perspective here. They just used extremely focused radiation in an extremely controlled fashion to take pictures of the inside of your teeth, so your problem could be correctly and thoroughly diagnosed and appropriate steps be taken to fix the tooth. That’s not worth fifty dollars? I realize fifty bucks buys a lot of cheap low-quality crap from Walmart, but is that really more important than your teeth?
Especially since he won’t even pay it himself.
I mean it’s not the money, insurance covers THAT. It’s the damn principle of the thing! FIFTY DOLLARS! DAMN!
Oh come on! Just shut up and be happy that you live in an time and country where your dentist has technology more sophisticated than pliers and elbow grease. If you’re so concerned about principle — and that principle is, apparently, the International Dental Conspiracy — tie one end of a string to a doorknob and the other to your sore tooth and get it over with DIY-style. Don’t let the International Dentist Conspiracy win.
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