5 years ago i had some of my teeth pulled here that were broken, they were great, friendly and understanding.
Went back friday, a week ago to get wisdom teeth pulled out at the oral clinic on the 2nd floor, room 230. Lets say, this time around, everyone just seemed to be rude and were in an extreme rush, infact i dont even know any of their names that seen me.
Prior to being sedated, they didnt really tell me much about what they were going to do. After i woke up, i was told nothing, just put into a wheel chair and pushed to my car, they didnt tell my wife anything either. Went back the same day due to extreme amounts of bleeding. The clot had came out, they said it had started to reform on its own and the bleeding stopped, And sent me home.
No pain for the rest of the day. None the next day, until a big blob of squishy greyish black with blood all over it came out. Called the emergency number. Guy was very helpful, and told me to come in monday. I was in extreme amounts of pain when i woke up, my jaw was double in size and swollen. Pain meds were hardly working. Went monday and all they can tell me was that it was normal and i was healing as expected and to just take my pain meds and some ibpruphen.
Week goes by, the pain is still there. I have to take two hydrocodones and 800mgs of ibpruphen every five and a half hours just to make the swelling go down and make the pain barable. I go back, once again people are rude, i heard one of the docters making Fun of a patient in a winey voice, mimicing what a patient said. The docter that seen me was in a rush. He looked at one of the holes in my mouth and kinda looked at another.
TURNS OUT I HAD A DRY SOCKET.
Im kinda pissed off, cause, i came in for the exact same pain and swelling a week ago yet "everything was healing as expected, just keep taking your pain meds"
They put some stuff in my mouth that smelled, tasted and looked like chewing tobacco. Half the pain went away. Thanks for that. Bout a week late though.
He asked me if the pain was in the top socket as well, i told him that it just hurts my entire head. So he did not put the stuff in any other socket, but i thought "your the docter... you looked at them.. shouldnt you have known if it was causing it as well?"
I feel like some of the pain could of been prevented early on. Thankfully it doesnt cost $. To get checked up on. Which is a plus. And the surgery itself literaly was 60-40% cheaper than what other dentist charge. So that is good.
I most likely will come back for dental work. But the DRs could be a bit more inclined to actaully help patients and to get rid of pain rather than getting them out the door asap.