Dental Hygiene Analysis

There’s no such thing as an Oath I sat in the passenger’s seat of my father’s car and he positioned himself in the driver’s seat next to me. Unfortunately, we made little conversation as he drove since we were making our way to our new dentist’s office to get, or so we thought, my seven cavities checked. The entire time it took to get to the new dentist, I just kept recalling what had happened last time I made this dreaded trip. Previously, we went to another dentist for a checkup before our insurance expired and I received the news that I had a reported seven cavities that need to be filed before I went to college. This came as a shock to me for I felt no pain and had recently prioritized my dental hygiene (this took place not to long after …show more content…
I later learned my father reacted the same way; asking to go back to check the x-rays himself and then called my mom to tell her the perplexing news. In this time frame I told him the trouble we had with the other dentist and that she said I had seven cavities that needed to be filled but time and time again he stated I had none to speak of.
It was then I realized that that female dentist had lied to me and my family about my dental health. She tried to stick us with a near $800 bill (with insurance) to fill cavities I did not have and not to mention the pain I would have gone through afterwards. What’s even worse was how I had told her about the financial difficulty my family was having at the time for they were trying to come up with college money yet she still felt no misconduct. Maybe I shouldn’t have said I felt some minor pain here and there (which could have been any number of things) or that I had a major sweet tooth; either way she lied about my state of dental health to fill her pockets at our expense. I even started to question all the other cavities I had received in the past that made no sense. From that day on I knew that I would never trust another dentist, or any medical professional,