I'm so sorry about your niece, Missy. What a terrible thing to happen.

I am totally disillusioned with the medical and dental profession. I don't trust anything anyone tells me anymore. These days it's like we have to be our own doctors! When I was having a tooth pulled a few months ago, my father, who was with me, said that "you know, when you and he were dicussing it, you actually came across as knowing more than him." How bad is that?