I love my dentist.

Finally.

I was looking through my Archives to see if I posted about the last time we went to the dentist and it doesn't look like I did. Here’s the short version.

Mitch and I went to a California dentist back in April. We each went in for x-rays, an oral exam, and a cleaning and it literally took FOUR HOURS. Plus, the dentist told me that I had $1,700 worth of work to be done on my already beautiful teeth. Seriously. So I hated our California dentist.

We never went back.

Anyway, now that we’re back in Utah and it’s approximately six months later, we’re back to dentisting again. Yipee.

This time it’s better.

1. I found a dentist office here that’s amalgam free. (Yay!) That’s a Very Good Thing. See, amalgam is the silver filling stuff. I don’t want amalgam. I want resin. It’s prettier. With our insurance, they’ll pay for the amalgam but if we want resin, we have to pay the difference. There’s a bit of a loophole though--if the dentist office is amalgam free and we have to get resin, they’ll pay the full price. Done.
2. My appointment was today. The dentist here addressed all of the things the stupid California dentist wanted to do plus did some preventative things but for a lot less. Instead of paying $1,700, I paid $70. Really. The cost per tooth in California was going to be $161-205. Here it’s $10-14. And that’s with the exact same insurance. It’s really that much of a difference.
3. Okay, we’d had all of our x-rays done back in California. Our insurance will only cover a full mouth x-ray every three years and bitewings every year. I’ve been trying for the last week and a half to get our California They want to charge us $36 each. Uh no. They’re our x-rays. I don’t need a $36 copy. I moved. I’m not coming back to your stupid office. I’ll take the originals, thanks. So anyway, I was mad about that and the dentist here did bitewings on me anyway and just didn’t bill me for them. How nice! (That doesn’t mean I’m leaving our old dentist alone. They’re our x-rays and I still want them.) dentist to send us our x-rays.
4. I liked everyone at the dentist office.

The End.