Dentist, what would you do?

You'd be surprised riverwalk

mrsmopp I assume you're kidding about the brazil nuts!

I expect you had been specifically warned not to crack open Brazil nuts with your teeth, too!
Re the five minutes' work..... he probably scheduled a 20 or 30 minute appointment.

I reckon it was cracking open Brazil nut shells with my teeth wot did it ? !!
But seriously as it was such a quick repair he could have come down on the price a bit, I think. Five minutes work for him cost me a weeks pension...

MrsMopp my advice would be to ring the surgery & say the filling has come out again after only 4 months and ask whether there would be a further charge for replacement.
I think most practices would not charge if something failed within a year, unless you had been specifically advised that re-filling would be unlikely to last long and a veneer or crown would have been better.

*off.

PS, a new dentist should provide you with a schedule of charges.

This happened to me. Many years ago a corner of my front tooth chipped of. It was built up. Several years later it chipped again, some was removed to give a 'key to the new fill.

Then it happened again, this time my new dentist suggested a veneer on the tooth. She explained that every time the fill failed more good tooth had to go to make the filling stable.

I had the veneer, not cheap, but worth it. The tooth looks better than the original one. The other front tooth is getting thin at the edge, so it might end up veneered as well.
The only downside is you have to be careful not to bite on anything hard, so no bottle opening with your teeth !