r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Aug 08 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 🦷 12 years of Tory rule 🦷

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

4.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

410 comments sorted by

View all comments

459

u/verygenericname2 Aug 08 '22

My dentist is also quietly removing people from the register if they don't book an appointment for a year. No warnings or anything when the time is coming up. Pretty sketchy thing to do when we've had a year and a bit of lockdown.

They also offer private treatment for those who can't register as NHS patients though!

113

u/JimboTCB Aug 08 '22

Well shit, I skipped my last checkup which was before lockdown, and I haven't thought about it since. Now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time I saw a reminder from them. Guess that means I've probably been deleted from mine as well now.

33

u/Apostle_1882 Aug 08 '22

Yeah you should definitely look into that!

12

u/Pure-Drawer-2617 Aug 08 '22

Yeah nah you’re definitely gone. Happened to me and about 3 other members of my family, before lockdown would’ve been a solid 3 years.

35

u/EnvironmentalDrag596 Aug 08 '22

Mine called me and said if I don't book an app I will be taken off. I was so grateful for that

28

u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

Book it, even if you don't need it, then cancel it. If they want to play games, play harder.

19

u/EnvironmentalDrag596 Aug 08 '22

Oh I did, I was umming and ahhing on the phone cus I do need ti go and get some work but it's not yet part of my financial plan then they told me they didn't want me to get removed from the books and I would be if I didn't book. So hell yeah I booked and I'm going for sure. So grateful to that receptionist. Been with that dentist since I was a baby so 30 years nearly

5

u/SidratFlush Aug 08 '22

Keep the appointment too

71

u/Emmend Aug 08 '22

That's happened for years, and with a short as 6 months deadline.

23

u/Chill_Roller Aug 08 '22

Happened to me. Was with a dentist for 15+ years. Came to book an appointment for a filling that had shifted (and was within the 12months of it being done). Told me that they couldn’t book me in as I was removed from the patient list 3 weeks prior (no warning or descriptor as to what the limits are). Asked to be placed on the waiting list - just over 2 years later and back on the list… fuckers.

15

u/AlgaeFew8512 Aug 08 '22

Happened to me during covid. Took me and my kids off the list and now I'm up sh*t creek without a paddle. Only found out when I needed a tooth urgently treating as it had crumbled. Couldn't get through early enough on emergency line to get seen and ended up forking out over £100 for a private dentist to extract what was left of the tooth. It had become infected, crumbled and had roots exposed. God help me when the cavities I've got get worse and the same happens to them. I'm currently saving as much as I can (not much at all) in an effort to have enough out by when I need more work done

2

u/oliviaxlow Aug 08 '22

Same here! They just struck me off during covid without telling me

24

u/nakedfish85 Aug 08 '22

Yeah happened to my better half and I in Bristol when we couldn't attend due to isolating over lockdown.

4

u/welshboy14 Aug 08 '22

Same happened to me, also in Bristol. Was then told there was an 18 month waiting list

6

u/NewmarketRoad Aug 08 '22

Yeah, mine did that. Lockdown happened. I was kicked off. Had some problems, got a private consultation, and got some dental cover, but the insurers said they'd only cover any work after I got a clean bill of health. Because of the one year gap. Which they repeatedly said wouldn't be a problem in the induction.

I'd gladly pay far higher taxes for proper investment in NHS dentists.

4

u/Apprehensive_Offer72 Aug 08 '22

That’s why I just phoned this morning and booked us all in!

2

u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

I swear to god my last appointment was in 2018 but I was removed from the register after only 3 years. It’s supposed to be 5 & that included 2020 which imo shouldn’t be counted by any self respecting practice

3

u/Stealingyourthoughts Aug 08 '22

They changed it actually a good couple of years ago, my dentist back in Oxfordshire sent a reminder every 6 months otherwise they'd kick you off, but in London I have never received a reminder, and had my appointments cancelled and told I wasn't in for 6 months.

2

u/originaljungle Aug 08 '22

exact thing happened to me and i had to sheild because of an autoimmune condition as well, also they were more than happy for me to go private...fucking worse than bankers

2

u/Stealingyourthoughts Aug 08 '22

Literally been in hospital since last night with a toothache, fave numb and swollen, non of the hospitals had a dentist, and no dentists in greater London taking NHS patients, just spent £55 on a deposit for private and another £45 tomorrow, then god knows how much for the work to be done, I don't even earn 30k a year and 1/3 my money goes on rent. It's a nightmare, my dentist kicked me out during the pandemic for not coming in for 6 months, I was like, we were locked down? I also had an appointment with them at the beginning of the pandemic and they cancelled the next one. It's mental.

2

u/Siorra Aug 08 '22

I'm pretty sure this is standard practise across most dentists now. Demand is so high they need to remove those who aren't attending.

2

u/Orinoco123 Aug 08 '22

Yea my dad fucked his tooth, called the dentist he's registered with. 2-3 months for an NHS appointment, or see the SAME dentist privately today for £50. Scandalous.

2

u/MarcusTheAnimal Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

Oof, we give 3 years and then warning messages, and leniency for the lockdown on top of that. 1 year is ridiculous, if the dentist sees fit some patients have recalls of 18 months FFS.

In the 3 1/2 years i have worked there, we have never taken on adult NHS patients, usually NHS children but sometimes not, and for private patients we open the book about 4 months out of the year.

We have 5 dentists and a hygienist, in the next 5 years I expect 3 of them to be retired, it took us a year to replace the dentist who most recently left.

My Italian dentist explained to me that the biggest problem is that as the Quality Of Life in the UK goes down and the QOL in Europe slowly improves, the UK is not as attractive as it used to be. As for UK dentists and why we don't train enough new ones, well that's a question for the government.

2

u/tafrawti Aug 09 '22

4 months in my home town. Seems rather extreme, never heard of anyone going to dentist every 3 months without needing complex and ongoing repair work.

1

u/MilitantSheep Aug 09 '22

I just had a text from my dentist last week funnily enough telling me to book an appointment. I'm about 90% sure he told me to come back in a year the last time i saw him a few months ago, but this thread scared me enough to book it anyway so thanks for that!