We live in Portland Oregon and I was wondering if anyone else doesnt have insurance what do they do about dental work? We do have a denatl school but Im not sure if they do a good job because she has been there before when she was little and they botched the job?
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Sorry about your daughter's situation. Hard to advise you from 'across the pond' as we live in the U.K. Re: DENTAL HEALTH ... We are very lucky to be National Health Service patients, registered with the same dentist since 1978, so that he has kept us on his list (we have become friends in all that time!). Many people in the U.K. cannot find a dentist that will give them 'free' or 'NHS subsidised' treatment. Private fees are astronomical to ordinary folk so we tend to revert to visiting Dental (Teaching) Hospitals where the treatment may not be up to Private standards, but is generally adequate, if you don't mind receiving injections and treatment from relatively inexperienced students! I watched "First Do No Harm" the other night (Meryl Streep / Fred Ward / Seth Adkins) and was, as ever, horrified at what American citizens have to cope with when they are too well off to get 'relief' but not well off enough to be fully insured, or able to meet all their costs with, or without, insurance! Our N.H.S. is very far from perfect, but it is still, mostly, FREE and based almost entirely on patients' NEEDS, not (at all!) on their MEANS! Best wishes, OLLY x [My family's experiences of the NHS have ranged from O.K. to incredibly good over the past 30 years - we wonder why so many U.K. people can only kick holes in the NHS!]
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