Beware polite dentists...they're just passing you on to someone else...

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.....or so it seems. What the first dentist neglected to tell me (I should

have thought of this beforehand, cause I knew it was a problem...) was that this

cracked molar -- is sticking up into my sinus cavity (and that too -- my first

doctor 3 years ago called them huge), and pulling it out will leave three

open holes. So again I was referred elsewhere, because this oral surgeon didn't

have a hyperbaric chamber, which he feels will be necessary, because of the

possible necessity of bone grafts. Not something any other dentist has even

referred to.

I've had a LOT of work done over the years and none of this, or my EDS-shaped

roots and teeth, bothered any of my dentists PRE-diagnosis, they just did the

work, and I healed perfectly fine. The surgeon today was going to refer me to

the head of oral surgery at one of the expensive private hospitals/schools,

but he knows the guy in charge of the county's oral surgery department, and

says he's just as good. He also told me I shouldn't haave anyone other than a

surgeon do my extractions, it's too dangerous... So, after trying to deal with

this privately, I'm back to the county health district's oral surgery

department.

I'm so tired. It isn't something that has to be dealt with immediately, which

is good. I have to figure out how to get an appointment out of oral surgery

without an emergency referral from my county clinic doctor. How on earth do I

go on fighting this sort of thing for years? It's taking more and more out of

me, physically and emotionally; today's perfectly polite and well-meaning

encounter left me in tears once I got home. Rhetorical. Of course I'll go on

because -- what else would I do...