Thanks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It was pretty horrendous experience, especially for me being phobic. Can't stress how awful he was, worst dentist ever had in my whole life.

He kept going on about cancer and other major diseases. I am pretty sure I don't have any because my doctor has run lots of tests on me. I had some results yesterday - blood count and hormones are all in "normal" range and my estrogen has dropped slightly. I also had scan 2 years ago for cysts and tumours.

If I had something major, starting at when I was 12, which is 18 years ago, I think I would be dead by now. What I have is a lot of "little" annoying things that won't go away. I thought it might be due to mercury, but he doesn't think so.

For some years I had to see specialists about my poor bite. I have a severe receding lower jaw. They did their very best for me. This guy thought he could fix everything with a couple of (very expensive) crowns and got very cross because I couldn't co-ordinate the bites he wanted me to do.

Teriible, terrible, terrible experience, and I am still trying to recover!

Only good thing is I have learnt that I "only" have 5 mercury fillings, and 2 of them are small, one root. And all but the root one are very shallow and easy to replace. He wanted to drill and crown my root filling and do something else on it, but I just want it out. He didn't recommend it because I have lost several other teeth. I don't care about that (I'm not a very vain person, especially not when people don't generally look into my mouth a lot!), I just want it out. It's causing me pain as it's decaying and is almost down to the gum on one side. I want it out. I also want another tooth (I think upper right wisdom tooth) extracted as it jugs out and bites my gum a lot. He noticed that and again shouted at me when I said it was the angle of the tooth, he said it was me, that I move my mouth and so I bit it.

I do a lot of computer work, and I mean a LOT. I've studied for years. Everyone who does tends to get bad posture and leg pains, especially worse if I have a birth defect in my hip.

Really he had no ability to see beyond making money and didn't relax me at all.

I think I have been too hard on our NHS dentists. They might not agree with us about the mercury, but they have (all but one) been so very nice. A lot of them don't get much money from fixing our teeth and the specialists get a fixed salary. When I had a tooth out earlier this year that was in awkward position, I had to go to hospital to be seen by the top dentist. He was an absolute wonderful one. He sat with me for ages, really being supportive and understanding, and never ever shouted at me. All the nurses were wonderful and genuinely cared how I felt.

I hope I find a dentist with diamondlite who can replace the three fillings. This man wanted to do the fillings right away without any testing, didn't mention any precautions, or respect my desire that I'd told him several times that I wanted to research the materials he was using. He said he knew better than me about the materials.

Maybe mercury exposure has made him aggressive or something, I don't know. He said he had problems with it when he had the fillings. I think he needs to be more compassionate.

I am REALLY stressed - not eating or sleeping much - but at least I have some plan now - 2 extractions and 3-4 fillings (he said I have other cavities needing sorted, but I will get second opinion as I was mislead on that before).

He also said my tongue was heavily coated - aswell as everything else wrong with me. I felt extremely upset coming from there and told the nurse that while she was lovely, what he says is enough to make someone depressed suicidal.