This is the kind of stuff that makes me run from dentists. Sosick, I have had the same sales pitch done to me. One dentist said to me "aren't you self conscious about those patches on your teeth"? Now UNTIL he said that, it hadn't really bothered me very much. I have creamy coloured patches on my front teeth, which some people do have. They appeared after chicken pox as a child and unfortunately remained every since. But it never really bothered me and I never got teased about because nobody honestly noticed all that much.

He said "You would feel much better about yourself and I can help you" and I thought OHHHHHH YEAH, and I bet I could HELP you! Just imagine the big financial boost he'd get from putting veneers on my teeth? Sure, I guess he was giving me an option cosmetically but the way he did this I felt was very pushy and actually rather insulting and he was insistent about it too. I just lead him on and said "I'll think about it", but of course I had no real intention of doing it. Considering I am not wealthy, I am NOT interested and I was there for my health trying to get biocompatible materials put in. Why would I want extra foreign material in my mouth from veneers? It's enough that I have what I have already. I wish I had no material in my mouth and just enamel!

At any rate, I went to another dentist to get my cerec materials put in. HE was not a biologic dentist though, but I had no amalgam, so I wasn't too bothered. He is highly trained and actually trains other dentists in Cerec and how to place them properly etc. So I felt he would probably be a better bet than a lesser trained cerec dentist.

He was a good guy, BUT he too tried to sell me veneers. He mentioned the patches and I said "well I don't actually feel that they are that noticeable, plus I don't walk around grinning all day and my teeth are not actually so great I want to anyway". I have very ordinary teeth, not so great, but comfortable and "ok". That's enough for me and franky, just as you said, teeth are NOT naturally so white anyway!

If I was a movie star, or if I had badly stained teeth that did not resolve with anything else, or I was younger and a bit vainer perhaps and had good health and more cash and cared about that kind of stuff, then maybe yes. But as I am? Seriously, I don't think I can be bothered. And I wonder what the heck they might look like anyway. Usually they look much bigger afterwards.

LOL about what you said to him about his own veneer job. Yikes!!!! but it's true, I have seen that as well and sometimes you see before and after shots and at times the person looked better before. One does not want to look unnatural either. Yes they can work for some people, but I'm just wary, plus I'm not healthy enough to risk putting more material in there anyway.

I think he thought I might come back and get them done, but I never did. Then I went to another dentist recently for check up, scale and clean which I mentioned. Metal free was in his advert, yet when I went there he tried to give a BS line that he was not metal free because of mercury being a danger in our mouth, but only because he felt it was very dangerous to the environmnent and he wanted to get it out of his surgery......what a load of rubbish!!! He actually thought he could sit there and lie to me through his teeth and that I would swallow it (excuse the puns).

If that wasn't bad enough? He himself actually used Cerec in his surgery and seemed somewhat miffed that I had new Cerec replacement materials in my mouth and had them done by someone else. I told him who I went to and then he said "HOw much did he charge you?" (I knew that the guy I went to actually charged a bit less than this guy) and I told him and he said "oh ok, that's reasonable" and went quiet because he knew he charged much more. Then he said "well, actually it's a good material but gold is better" and then he paused and said "I can redo them in gold, it will last a lifetime" and I said "um I have just had them done, I do not want to get them back out again, he's made a very good job too" and he said "well, I mean when you want to later on". Then I said "I cannot AFFORD gold" and he turned around and said "well you could afford the cerec, so I'm curious why gold would be a problem, they are similar in price" and I swung around and said "excuse me, I am STILL paying the cerec off on my father's credit card" and he went quiet after that. He was trying to screwing me for every dollar he could. Even to the point of suggesting I get my newly done highly expensive dental job in one of the newest and strongest materials available, redone by him in gold.

and I already told you his charges on the other thread. He charged me as much as he could possibly charge me and found any excuse to make any additions he could and then charge me for that. Almost as though he was trying to get as much out of me as possible because perhaps sosick you are right, they are just not getting the clientelle anymore. Perhaps he knew I wouldn't go back to him anyway. Or maybe becuase he was in the city centre that he gets away with such high charges because of the people in better paid jobs around that area pop in to see him in their lunch hours etc and can afford such high prices.

Whatever the reason, I was disgusted and will never go back to him. It is very sad that all they see when you open your mouth is opportunity and dollar signs. What your dentist did to you, it's almost as though they find away to have you come back for future visits. I have heard this before and many devastating reports from people with dentists who have chipped away at a tooth so much it's then fallen apart or cracked open (just like yours did) and then the dentist wants to charge them for a crown.

I wouldn't want to paint all dentist with the same brush, as I know there are some out there that are genuine and are fixing the mistakes of the bad ones! The ones that want a person to be well, and use their dentistry in the right way to prevent those problems or improve them if the damage had already been done. But there are so many greedy dentists sosick and they make so much money out of it, I just cannot understand WHY! It's just TEETH.