I’m American and in addition to our messed up healthcare system. Teeth are simultaneously so important that I have to see a specialist (dentist) for routine care, but so unimportant that it’s not included in my healthcare coverage. Is it like that elsewhere?

  • unfnknblvbl@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    12 months to see a hospital physio who got me in front a surgeon the next day, he wondered how I was still walking.

    Same thing happened to me with my lipoma. it was 15cm in diameter by the time a GP finally referred me for surgery. The surgeon said “yeah we like to remove them when they’re 5cm diameter or greater”. Which was the size it was when I first saw a doctor about it.

    It was about 18 months before I got surgery, when they told me it was a 6-month wait. So I’m sure you’ll get seen before too long =)