I have an infected molar from a root-canal, and I’m having much problems lately getting it professionally extracted. &@!$!*(^
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Thanks. I’m going to try again, tomorrow or Tuesday.
I actually scheduled and showed up at one place on Friday, but they told me my ID was inadequate. Very annoying…
How did it go, could you get rid of it yet?
Fuck that!
Actually I tried to pull it myself on Saturday. A found a nice vice-wrench to do the job, then sterilised it. So I went ahead, and tried to go really slow and gentle because 1) I’m a bleeder, and 2) the last thing I want is to break off a root. It took forever though, and I wound up falling asleep, with the tooth still in my skull.
Meanwhile, I found a 4th place to try, and will schedule on Monday. So far all three of my 1st candidate dental offices had some problem or other…
AAAAH AAH NO NO NOOO!!
I really really hope that the 4th place will take you, this whole thing is crazy. I’m so sorry that you have to go through that.
You can’t be serious, that sounds dangerous af! Please get it removed professionally asap.
It didn’t hit me when reading this last week, but is that normal procedure where you live? I don’t think I’ve ever been asked for ID when going to a doctor. They’ll ask for my social security card, but it isn’t mandatory, it just makes things easier with insurance. It doesn’t make sense to me, what if you’ve lost your ID card, or forgotten to renew it, don’t you still need medical care?
When I go to the local clinic, they do ask for ID, but since I don’t like to take it with me when I’m on foot (plus, it’s expired), I typically don’t have it. And they’re okay with that.
The issue with the 3rd dental office might have been that I was a brand new patient. Then again, a couple years back, a different dental office didn’t ask for ID as a new patient, and neither did an optometrist’s office. I guess such things are up to the provider in the state I live in.
Oh, do they have those too in France?
EDIT : Godamit, the 4th place (oral surgeon) isn’t willing to accept my old ID, either. Problem is, my new passport is being worked on by a local law firm, and I have no idea when it’ll be ready.
Oh shit, I’m so sorry. Maybe I’m naive and ignorant, but that seems crazy to me, it’s not even like you have no ID document at all, it’s just out of date. It’s a dentist’s appointment, not a national security issue. If it was just for a routine check up, I’d understand, but for an infected tooth? Isn’t there duty to assist, or the Hippocratic Oath, or some crap like that? How reasonable is it to leave someone with a tooth infection just because their passport is out of date? I’m beginning to understand why you tried to pull it out yourself…
Yep, it looks like this. With a “personal number” that’s assigned at birth — or when you immigrate if you weren’t born in the country. It’s sometimes accepted as an ID document, but not always. (I’ve learned very recently that it’s accepted for voting.)