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I have just had a phone call from the new dentist at the hospital, the good news is i now have an appointment for the 16 August for a check up. Looks like the ball is rolling.

Margaret Pilkington better get yourself ready, it will be your turn soon. lol:eek:

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I haven't heard anything yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting my appointment.

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Oh, Bl**dy H*ll........ that is the second time today I have gone goosey..............Oh, I am going to have to get a large bottle of tranx to help me cope.
But Thanx for the warning Janet.......I had begun to relax thinking it would be ages yet.

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Janet is this dentist taking on new patients?

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i am still waiting to hear whether i have been accepted on a dentists from that lot down at p.c.t will give them a ring today i think

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Not sure Grego, ring this number 01254 263555 and ask to be put through to Victoria hospital, dental department. Hope this helps.

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Thanks Janet, will do that.

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Either that, or get yourself a strong pair of pliers Willow. lol

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I hide under the bed now when the postman calls........!

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They are also taking patients on at Central Dentists in Blackburn. I rang NHS direct because the tooth in which I need a root filling was flaring up and they sent me to these people who were lovely and registered me, the brat and my partner in all of 2 minutes. They did say it was because the treatment I needed wasn't 'done' at emergency dentists - they would have just dosed me up with amoxcillin again!

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Well, I got a phone call this afternoon from a lovely lady called Sue.......To say I was shocked was an understatement.....I HAD begun to think that I had been forgotten....but NO. I have an appointment for Monday 29th of January at 2.30.....OK don't laugh.......I know that is 'dentist time'(tooth hurtee - oh, forget it).
My knees were knocking so hard that it sounded like someone playing the castanets - all be it, very badly. I explained that I was VERY scared, and sue spent a good 10 minutes giving me reassurance.
So whatever you are doing on Monday...please offer up some kind of prayer that I will not let the side down by running screaming along Queens Road. :(

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they are lovely people margret. anyway good luck .

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Thanks Mez.........I'm going to need it.

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Can you get them to measure you up for false teeth? the last bloke I had in Blackburn has gone private, and he wants a £1,000 pound, last time they only cost me £135.00 pounds for the same job. Dental Mechanics are not allowed to go into your mouth, I suppose they could copy your old ones, but what use is that when there 'slack' and how much would they want?

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I don't know Ianto. I'm not hoping it will come to plastic teeth(shudders at the thought)......although it is more than 40 years since i saw a dentist...I still have a fair few of my own peggies.....they just need a bit of maintenance......or that is what I am hoping!

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Do you know Margaret, false teeth were the cause of my first marriage break up, I got up one morning and picked my dentures out of the 'pot' and the damn things didn't fit, they were her's she had the cheek to put them in the same 'pot' as mine, yuck.

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Eewwwwwwwww! Yuk.

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margret ill give u plenty of good luck if i can do it so can u good luck

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Thanks Carl...much appreciated.

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Yes, well........ I went, which means the hero's head won over the cowards legs. And what do you know? You guys were absolutely right. The people who run the Dental unit are diamonds. That isn't to say that I didn't have the collywobbles.....I DID, but they took time to put me at ease and made me feel like they understood how scared I was. I didn't have anything done other than a general inspection. I have to go back next week...they are going to get Howorths Scaffolding gang to help out....yes there is major work to be done......but the biggest part of a long journey is the first step...and I've made that move. I'm going to give myself a putty medal!

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Well done Margaret. First hurdle overcome. :)

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well done margret when i whent i had to have all of my teeth taken out

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Very Well Done margaret, Phobias are a bitch to overcome whatever they may be.:)

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well done margaret :)

:( Oh how I wish we still had the blogs and then we would have been treated to one of your unique step by step blows of how it went :rolleyes:

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good on ya margaret glad all went well for you i'll send you something .

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love it , only in Lancashire

:D :D :D

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Thanks to all of you for your encouraging words and to Cashy and mez for their gifts of karma........I have to go back next monday for a 'scale and polish'...hope they don't use an old rusty brillo......then in the following weeks the real work will be done...and maybe even a hospital visit will be on the cards as I have a wisdom tooth root which looks like it will need dynamite.

I'm sorry not to be able to write a blog of the events....you would have p'd your pants laughing.....because some of the event was very funny.

I will still have the collywobbles when I go on Monday, but I now have some strategies to help me cope......and my husband isn't one of them....he was as useful as a chocolate teapot!

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Just a little update....... I had the scale and polish, thought to be honest there was far more scale than polish about it. A week later I went back and had what the dentist termed 'a gentle root extraction'........I'm not quite sure I would have called it that, but I survived.....and today I went back for the final part of this round of treatment.........5, yes five root extractions.......with I'm quite proud to say, just local anaesthetic........so I am a bit 'down' in the mouth.......but I can look forward now to just the six monthly checks........YIPPEE. Thanks for all your support over the last few weeks it has been an amazing help. Oh, and if David the dentist is reading this, or Katrina the dental nurse....YOU were both MAGIC!

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nice one margaret, well done you cracked it now i hope.;)

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Well done Margaret. I was wondering how you got on and somehow missed this thread. I recently went for my first 6 month check up after having my treatment. I was dreading it but got away with just a scale and polish.:D

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Yes, Lettie....I am told I was very pale and shaky when I came out having the roots extracted.......and i did have a pretty sore face for about a week, but it is all done now.....I just have to keep going for the check ups....and I think I can cope with those now.

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Glad you got through it, Margaret. Take care of your teeth. I don't think people realize how many health problems are caused by neglecting the mouth.

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I have always brushed my teeth regularly......and apart from not visiting the dentist...looked after them. Ok, Now I know that probably sounds daft, but the dentist I saw for my recent treatment said that I had looked after them very well. My phobia of dentists stems from the time of School dental clinics.
I was held down by two very buxom dental nurses while a dentist drilled and filled my teeth. This left me really scared and so i hadn't seen a dentist for 40+ years. I had some broken teeth, which if I could have got out myself I would have done...but anyway I am all fixed now......and just have to go for the regular check ups.
I was so ashamed of the state of my teeth, but not anymore.

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Sounds positively gruesome!