In the second week of February this year, the dentist said I needed a wisdom tooth extracted but he could not as the root is curved. He contacted the dental hospital for an urgent appointment. I didn't hear anything prior to lockdown 5 weeks later and then a later in July asking if I still needed it.
The cap came off so I replied the stump is painful so yes please.
Saturday I received a letter instructed me to make an outpatients appointment, which I did only it has to be a virtual one due to Corona virus. I have to sit at my computer talk over zoom!
It seems they aren't doing any dental work at all and they are the major dental clinic in this part of London.
But my dentist said I could go private as the NHS Covid restrictions don't cover private consultations, funny that.
To cap it all, my visit to the heart Failure nurse tomorrow (appointment 'postponed' 5 times in two months from end of October to tomorrow is now a telephone appointment. So how can she weigh me, do the ECG, check my pulse etc that they did before?
And the hospital called on my land line which I asked them to remove 3 months ago and they said they had. It is a Virgin Media line that goes wrong whenever it rains so not reliable.
It was due at the local outpatient hospital so not a place that has wards of inpatients being treated.
Same problem here; asked them to remove my mobile but they haven't. i went for a CT scan a few weeks ago and the hospital was darn near empty. Even my dentist is working again for all treatments but only if you are in pain. I've lost 2 fillings which will undoubtedly get worse but they won't do them because they don't hurt .
Went for my daily walk which took me down to the very hospital that I would have seen the Heart Failure nurse.
I went into the Café which is in the building and I had a drink with something to eat whilst watching medical staff coming in, buying the same for takeaway or sitting together at tables that were not social distanced.
As I was told just three months ago that my heart failure is worse than it was before treatment & the ICD/pacemaker, I would have felt more confident. I don't understand why it was possible in June to see a nurse face to face and be examined but not now when there isn't the widespread deaths from it.
I was due to have a crown made back in March. During this time my tooth has crumbled, but my NHS dentist still isn’t doing that. I had to pay to go private and my crown and 4 fillings later I am now £1700 lighter, but I still have my teeth.
Hmm. Odd that. My husband needs 3 extractions ( decay due to oral radiotherapy many years ago). He had his pre appointment at the Sheffield dental hospital last week and extractions will go ahead before the end of the month. He has been prescribed antibiotics & mouthwash. I really would like to see a private consultant as the nhs are reluctant to do anything to help cosmetically ( he has v few teeth now & no prospect of implants or dentures) 😢but my husbands health issues are so complex that it seems risky. Good luck with the wisdom tooth. It’s probably a much bigger op than the extractions M is having but odd that they’re doing nothing in London.
Seeing that the dentist contacted the Dental Clinic 6 weeks before lockdown it is frustrating but he has now filed it down slightly so I no longer catch my tongue on the sharp bits.
As I said, it is the only hospital dental clinic in this part London and the receptionist said the delay is due to Covid & thousands of patients waiting for treatment.
It's time they started doing proper appointments. How on earth can you have a dental appointment over zoom? I have a telephone appointment the end of this month with ENT because I can't hear-- work that one out!
Bit the same here. I broke a tooth just as lock down came in. Fortunately not catching on tounge and no pain. Put on Dentists list for treatment when restrictions lifted. Then a couple of months ago I broke another tooth, again no pain etc. Was able to get appt. Dentist checked things out and I needed 1x crown. 1x filling plus another one as it was loose. So tomorrow I have crown fitted and filling done. With 2nd filling due in a fortnight. As my dental practice went private many years ago this lot will set me back over £700.00. 😡
My crown came off months ago and they would entertain doing anything, hence the jagged stump. My dentist is private too and took £40 in advance for the cursory poke around in the mouth, though he did file the jagged down. Apart from that, he wasn’t interested despite going to him for 20 years.
In some respects I am lucky, I don't have any wisdom teeth, X rays have proved it, so no impacted/extraction problems. However no teeth no wisdom perhaps!😀😀
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