Hi, I appreciate what you're saying. With respect to Tracy, I admit I found this dentist worded things in a very respectful and professional manner. I'm not discounting tracy's experience or what she stated at all, so just want to get that straight.

I am just once again, trying to say that he conducted himself as one would expect from a professional in his wording ....I felt rather unpopular for saying that, but that's how I read it..

I know it might seem like a witch hunt, but for a long time there have been patients who have been blocked and banned from ever expressing their dental negatives or outcomes and if they ever tried, they were usually banned from a forum for doing so and kicked out. Leaving them not only usually unable to have any come-back, but unable to caution others also.

so it's a difficult area, as it is risky and has legal implications too and in some cases may end up unfair to the professional and to his career. I do feel this forum is excellent and very open in allowing people to pass on help to others in such a way, I've not experienced on other forums.

This recent turn of events, maybe a little "tense' to say the least and it's not intentional that they turn into anything bad, it is up to the parties in question to sort things out offline if they can. I think it's pretty commendable though that a dentist gets on here and speaks out too in his own defense.

It's a bit like a boil coming to the surface sometimes. What I do find bad is if the statements being made are not fair or not entirely accurate. That is when it's got to be stopped.

Other than that, if a dentist is exploiting patients or harming some of them and going along merrily, then he/she deserves to be exposed for it. It's a bit of patient protection and I'm sure you would not be against that and I dont' think the good dentists would be either. Though it's hard on them too, as they are human and mistakes are made, no matter how good a dentist is, so this should be taken into account in all matters too!

I do think this will settle down personally, but for now it's heated.

Thanks for giving your side though. We need to hear what people experienced.