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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I hate the dentist even though my dentist is lovely but I go every 6 months for a check up and every 3 months to the hygeneist.Ā 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I go once a year for a check up and every four months to the hygienist, she is also trained to have a good look around, I’d rather do that than leave something undetected.Ā 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā 

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I go roughly once a year since we managed to find an NHS dentist. Prior to that I hadn't been in several years, but no problem when I did go.Ā  Haven't seen a hygienist in years.Ā  Any minor scaling and polishing is done by the dentist.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've never seen a "hygienist" ever.
    Devon.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Sorry for your brother’s acquaintance, Dove, and he had a lucky escape himself. Nevertheless, mouth cancer is not that common, by far the biggest killer is lung cancer (I think that applies regardlessĀ of whether you smoke) and we don’t all go and get a lung scan once a year - that, to me, would be more logical in terms of prevention and I would rather spend my money on that than dentists, but everyone else, feel free...

    It’s the evangelists, shoving it down your throat, so to speak, that get me curmudgeonly. I have a dear friend who drives me nuts going on about it - is always at the dentist getting stuff done, flosses and twizzles 2-3 times a day, has had so much corrective dentistry, fillings, crowns, you name it and I’m sure that’s the reason he has terrible teeth! So no nagging, OK? Mine are just fine ta very much!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Whilst I fully appreciate that for most people the regular check-ups/hygienist visits are irksome, when the system works, trust me, you'd be grateful.
    It was my dentist who noticed a large white patch on a routine X-ray.Ā  It turned out to be a side effect of taking Alendronic Acid (for osteopenia -Ā  a precursor to osteoporosis).Ā  A known side effect is osteonecrosis - the decay of bone in the jaw.Ā  An early spot was fortunate.Ā  Some, less fortunate, have had large areas of jaw bone removed. Ā 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's the same with eye tests. There's a lot of non sight related problems that they can spot too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    It's the same with eye tests. There's a lot of non sight related problems that they can spot too.
    I heard once, ( no idea if it's true ) that diabetes is more often spotted by opticians, than doctors
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Whilst idly scrolling through online recipes, I noticed some for 'repurposed' food . This looks interesting, says I -rice pudding into wallpaper paste? scone rockery? baked bean facepack ?
    Nope. I reckon if it's still for eating, it's not repurposed. It's leftovers.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Perhaps that’s what rock cakes were really meant to be ....Ā 

    šŸ¤” anyone seen any rock cakes lately ... have they become extinct? 😲

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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