It's an angry Sunday morning in my world. In part I'm angry about things domestic, but small. However the more I think about it the more I am totally pissed of at my dentist. I got a bill yesterday for $104. Now if I hadn't already paid them nearly $500 for fillings, that would have been free if they still did almalgam fillings (I suspect their profit margin is too low on fillings my insurance will pay for) they'd have been free. Also the teeth they filed had never hurt. Not once. Well maybe during orthodontia when I was in HS and all my teeth hurt, but not since. Now? Now I can't chew on them at all. I've waited several weeks before complaining about this because you know sometimes it takes a while to get over a filling or something. But everything from tuna salad or chewing gum, through sandwiches, and on to such challenges as um... peanuts, hurt like hell. So I was irritable, and was going to complain about same when it was time for the other fillings they allege I need. But now?!? with a shiny new bill for $104 for an X-ray set I informed them my insurance wouldn't pay for because it hadn't been 5 years since my last full mouth set of xrays, and I offered to run down my old xrays, before my first visit and have them sent over... they said No, we'll just do them again. I said "But my insurance won't pay." They said "Sure they will." And LOOOK! my insurance didn't pay. I'm really tempted to rip their billing chick a new asshole, and maybe the dentist, and quite probably the receptionist. Because while the hygenist was nice, and they were all very concerned that nothing hurt and that I be comfortable (note these are not things I care about in dentistry) they seem to have all done a pretty craptacular job at the things I do care about.

I want my dental work to be good. I want my fillings to say put, I want them smooth so crap doesn't catch on them, I want them to be useful chewing surfaces. This seems like sort of a minimum standard in dental care. Sadly, it also seems beyond these fools. Also when I ask for clear explanations of what things are going to cost, it might be because I want to pay my bills, and to do this I need to know how much money I have to round up before the event. So lying to me about it doesn't make me happy.

Also I'd much rather put up with a techincally good dentist, who has a crackerjack office staff, but doesn't care if that filling causes me a tiny bit of discomfort during the drilling phase.

In theroy they're filling the cavities on the other side of my mouth this upcoming week. I'm trying to decide if I should give them a second chance to fix my first fillings, and fill the second side or if I should just walk in there demand my file and leave.