A question was posed by a member of the management, and over the weekend I have had time to give it a bit of thought.
Strange question though it may be, it was one that gets you thinking and brings all sorts of different problems to mind.
Is desperation for dentists causing us as a nation to get substandard treatments from practicising professionals not from the UK?
The thing is here, none of us really like going to the dentist. I won’t use the analogy “it’s like pulling teeth” but it is close. Most of us only really go when we absolutely have to, desperation in another sense pushing us to pick up the phone or walk to the dentist’s surgery. I hate going, but two years ago I had to, had a tooth fixed and three pulled (ouch). But afterwards I felt like it was seemingly nothing, no problems whatsoever. The anaesthetic numbed any pain (thank goodness!) and it was a doddle, in and out in a few hours altogether. It felt weird having the teeth pulled though, you could “feel” the roots coming out, hear it too, but there was no pain.
And yes, it was a foreign dentist, swedish I believe. Quite good care I must say, very professional.
Does it matter whether the dentist is “english” or say, “polish,” or “lithuanian”? Are their standards lower than our own? For that matter, are our standards higher than theirs? For all we know they may have excellent dentistry standards that put ours to shame (I feel most nations’ health services, at least in dentistry, put ours to shame).
The poll’s question is – are the dentists from other nations as good as “english” dentists?
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