Anyone on here with real expertise as to how necessary these treatments are. As I have Pension Credit I get most of my dental treatment free on the NHS, but then have to pay exhorbitant for the hygenist. This time I have had to make two appointments -each at something like £45 each, as she felt that she needed to clean the bottom teeth with a injection as she was hurting me so much.
Is there any point in having this all done. Managed in the past without it.
I do remember, with anger, many decades ago, when I was trying to bring up a large family on benefit as my hubbie was increasingly disabled with MS, having to go to the dentist due to tooth ache, and being told that if I did not go to his hygenist (cost £15 then), my teeth were all probably go fall out within the next twelve months due to gum disease. I was so frightened. £15 was such a lot of money to me then, no way could I afford to spend it this way. This was back in the early 1980's and I still have my own teeth firmly in their gums.
