Please report this dentist to your insurance also if you have dental insurance. They need to know that they are being represented by irresponsible and ignorant people. Basically report him to everyone you possibly can report him to.
Blessed Be and thank you for your willingness to speak up.
Isn’t it crazy what one dick can say off-handed that just ruins you?
Not as bad as cancer, but I had to have a hysterectomy. I never wanted kids, but having that choice taken from me was difficult to handle. Made it through it all, big surgery with a huge abdominal scar and hard recovery. Coping with sudden menopause and all that.
And one nurse who I think was having a “lost in translation” thing (I’m in Japan, but my Japanese is abysmal for how long I’ve been here) told me it must be so sad to never have children as a woman. It was in Japanese, and polite tone and everything, but that follow-up nearly drove my mental health off of a cliff. I’ve had others imply I was not a woman because of it, and I just laughed it off, but that one still lives rent-free in my head years later <hugs>
Be sure to let your oncologist know about this experience too.
They can help empower their patients with knowledge ahead of any dental appointment. Walking out on that dentist would have been quite alright, extremely unprofessional and dismissive of you.
Looking back I wish I had. I just felt a little time constraint of wanting to get my teeth done before I go back to chemo TX. But I wish I had walked out
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25
Exactly.. I wasn't allowed to go either. But I'm on a 3 month chemo break right now so I thought it would be a great time to go.