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Originally posted by Yan Thanks, man. Did you get a chance to discuss the operation with a doctor or a surgeon this year, so far? Was interested in knowing if you got an estimate on how much your operation would cost.

mine's free due to the national health service here, but it comes at a price, as it's all taken from taxes paid anyway, and the service is in a major crisis (think too many people in suits, not enough doing the actual 'work') and they messed my teeth up when they put a brace on anyway, i'm still recovering (and it's costing a fortune for the actual dental work) but another thing being investigated on me could be linked to why the teeth aren't greatly strong anyway. A lot of ifs & but's at the moment.

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Originally posted by Ian mine's free due to the national health service here, but it comes at a price, as it's all taken from taxes paid anyway, and the service is in a major crisis (think too many people in suits, not enough doing the actual 'work') and they messed my teeth up when they put a brace on anyway, i'm still recovering (and it's costing a fortune for the actual dental work) but another thing being investigated on me could be linked to why the teeth aren't greatly strong anyway. A lot of ifs & but's at the moment.

Woah. I didn't know the situation was so complex over there. Either way, that's pretty good if it'll be covered by the health service.

As for your teeth being damaged due to previous dental work, isn't there some way of getting said health service to cover your costs due to the dentist's mess-up?

Unfortunately, work on the jaw is, 95% of the time, not covered by medical/dental insurance. In other words, the wallet cries.

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Originally posted by Yan As for your teeth being damaged due to previous dental work, isn't there some way of getting said health service to cover your costs due to the dentist's mess-up?

nope, we made a complaint about the woman cutting corners & rushing jobs but they didn't do anything, all they did was give me to the hospitals other orthodontist who while very nice smells very bad. He's hard to visit in hot weather.

the nhs, well yeah, basic care is free to all, but if you have the money you can go private. Right now, many people are so disillusioned, they're having operations in india, romania, belgium & other places, and claiming the money from the NHS for it, it lacks staff & a lot, and each hospital has way too many suits wasting money to work properly

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Originally posted by Ygrene I don't but, I catch myself jutting my lower jaw forward when playing video games or mixing. I don't realize I'm doing it until I take a break or stop altogether, and then I notice my jaw hurts like mad.

hahah i do that too sometimes, but not when i play video games. i just like the feeling of moving my bottom jaw under my top one...so i do it.

i also get woken up in the middle of the night because my bottom jaw sort of clicks forward...like jolts. it's weird. when it does that, my bottom row of teeth brush against my top row of teeth and that's the feeling that makes me wake up. it's like i bit down hard or something.

oh and yan, i wouldn't sweat it...if you are i mean. i think it looks cute and sort of gives u character.

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone