Re: Digest Number 504

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Hello all - Michele, I have not looked yet but I will set aside time tonight after work. Thanks for being so on top of everything (I feel like a slowpoke!).

Best of luck to today. Isn't he a little boy? (Sorry if I'm wrong!)

Re: flying, my 1st surgeon let me fly 3 weeks after a right tympanomastoidectomy, my 3rd had instructions on the pre-op sheet to wait 6 weeks. I did fly after 3 that 1st time, the c-toma ear was fine but I had a lot of trouble with my "good" ear. The problem is you can't pop your ears after surgery, so apart from swallowing/chewing type stuff there was no way to clear the good ear. Ouch.

BTW, my last ENT felt that regular ear popping, EXCEPT after surgery, is generally a good thing as it relieves the negative pressure that promotes the c-toma. As a child with chronic ear infections, though, I once had a "dinosaur" ENT put something like a bellows in my nose & "explode" both my ears open. Yikes! Anyone else ever have that? He said he did it to his kids all the time & they never had any ear trouble. Poor kids - we never went back to that guy again.

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Re: SEN Dentists

The NAS has just set up a new public information service called PARIS to

help people find any ASD-related service they are looking for in their area.

I had hoped to quickly find SEN dentists on it but they seem few and far

between. However, it may be worth spending some time doing an advanced

search. Go to www.nas.org.uk then look under PARIS. See if something comes

up in your area. If an ASD dentist in your area is too obscure, you could

always try the NAS helpline (0845 070 4004). Thanks to Vodafone sponsorship,

the NAS has been doing some really good work on their helpline and it's much

more effective that it used to be a few years ago. Hope this helps!

Pamela

Re: OT: Dental work needs doing - Help!

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>> >Hi Mandi and everyone

>> >Have just got back from seeing the Dentist, he managed to have a

>> >pretty good look at Sam's teeth this time and as I suspected from

>> >looking myself he has 3 small cavities, I feel very bad mother at

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>> >moment despite his pretty good diet, no sugar, fizzy drinks etc

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>> >there you go must get on and do the best thing.

>> >Dentist says that he will need GA and best to have them filled

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>> >though they are baby back teeth incase decay hits a nerve and all

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>> >breaks loose. Said we definately did not want amalgams and he was

> ok

>> >with that, even admitted that some people can be " sensitive " to

>> >mercury!! He wants to refer Sam to special needs dentist who we

> have

>> >seen but don't like as she is a 90 year old crone who Sam always

>> >screams at! Said we were willing to pay privately as he also said

>> >that with GA's they might just take his teeth out, cheaper and

>> >quicker, we obviously do not want this!

>> >Any ideas? Does anyone know of a really good dentist willing to

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>> >non-amalgam fillings under GA.

>> >Anything I should be concerned about in GA's?

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>> >fed up Di from Herts

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>> >DISCLAIMER

>> >No information contained in this post is to be construed as

> medical advice. If you need medical advice, please seek it from a

> suitably qualified practitioner.

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