Dr. Pediatric Dentist just got off the phone with Dr. Wonderful Dentist 20 minutes ago. Dr. Wonderful Dentist will be calling you.
I'm not sure what he will be calling you about.COME ON!? Really? Why can't I just shake this guy?!!! I don't want to go back to Dr. Wonderful Dentist. He sucks. I broke up with him yesterday on my blog. I even wrote that beautiful poem and everything!
Let's rewind to recap what happened on Saturday when I called to get an appointment with the original Pediatric Dentist for the cavity and a full mouth x-ray. Remember, Dr. Pediatric Dentist was the person who referred us to Dr. Wonderful Dentist back in May.
Initial Phone call with the Secretary went something like this:
Me: Hi, I'd like to make an appointment to have Dr. look at a cavity and at the same time get a full mouth x-ray for a periodontist we are also working with.So, Dr. Pediatric Dentist called me back. Unfortunately I was in the waiting area at gymnastics, so all these moms had to hear me explain that there is something genetic, how we are working on with the geneticist. I'm not worried right now about why they are falling out...I want to know what to do about the cavity.
Her: Wait...why are you calling us if you are under the care of Dr. Wonderful Dentist?
Me: Well, Dr. Wonderful Dentist said he has a cavity, wanted the periodontist to look at it, and now it is hurting him. Since the periodontist wanted a full mouth x-ray, I thought we could work it out to get both done.
Her: We don't know anything about what is going on. We haven't gotten a letter or a phone call from Dr. Wonderful Dentist. Nor from a periodontist.
Me: That is odd, Dr. Periodontist said he talked with your office. But anyway, Dr. Pediatric Dentist referred us to Dr. Wonderful Dentist, so maybe you can talk with him and he'll understand and get us in.
Her: You haven't been in here for a cleaning since December 2011.
Me: We've had his teeth cleaned three times since May by Dr. Wonderful Dentist.
Her: I don't understand why you want to come here and not go there.
Me:...just please tell the doctor....yada, yada, yada...
Then I told him how disappointed I've been with Dr. Wonderful Dentist. He apologized & said his intention wasn't to have it be hard on us sending us to him, but instead was really trying to help. There were tears, yes, tears...and all this was in public.
How did the call end?
Dr. Pediatric Dentist and I hung up the phone with him saying "I still want to talk with Dr. Wonderful Dentist, to get an update on what is going on. We'll work on it from there."
SO - I get a call Tuesday from Dr. Pediatric Dentist's office. They said 'Yes...you were right, Dr. Wonderful Dentist is impossible to get a hold of.' Yes - we all knew that....then...they told me to go back to him.
What the hell?! Dr. Wonderful Dentist is exactly like the Wizard of Oz...his name precedes him. No one wants to touch my son now...they don't want to step on Dr. Wonderful's toes or something.
Here comes MORE DRAMA:
Yesterday afternoon I got a call from Dr. Wonderful Dentist's secretary, asking if we could come in Friday to have the tooth looked at.
I said NO. I told her how I really felt about Dr. Wonderful Dentist.
She replied and said...he would want to hear what you have to say. Why don't you come in on Friday and tell him.
I told her NO. I'd rather talk with him and tell him over the phone. The service of care we have been getting from him has been utterly disappointing and I don't think it is in my son's best interest to have him care for him anymore.
So...guess where I am now?
Waiting for a call back from Dr. Wonderful Dentist.
Seriously! Seriously? Again...I'm waiting for him to call me back?
Oh yea...and I made an appointment for my son next week to see a completely new dentist.
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