"Roger Schlafly" wrote in message
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"Wendy Marsden" wrote
The pediatric dentist was talking about scheduling an OR for sometime in
the winter (months and months from now) to do all four fillings at

Get a new dentist. Do not pay any bill (since he didn't do the work
requested).

There is no need to use anasthesia or painkillers for simple fillings.
Just say no.

Why put the kid through filling which may actually be quite painful to them.
When i was a kid, my parents took me to a reduced rate dental clinic and one
of the ways they reduced the rate was to skip the pain killers.

Today, over 50 years later, I am still very apprehensive about returning to
a dentist, and get a mild case of me pre-combat anxieties that I got when I
was in Vietnam.