So today I had my first dentist appointment in over a year (annoyingly I no longer recieve free treatment), and after being exposed to several things that I have never been exposed to whilst visiting the dentist (including radiation) I was left feeling slightly terrified as to what my next appointment may entail.

Anyway during the session I recieved some sort of cleaning treatment that my dentist gives everyone because it's free, and somewhere along the line I must have been cut with one of the instruments or something because when asked to rinse I spat out some blood, not to mention that at one point he stuck one of those white things they use to suck up blood into my mouth.

He then returned to the process without mentioning the bleeding. During the new attempt he muttered something that sounded like 'emergency' and spoke quietly to his assistant whilst I began shaking in fear that I had a root canal or something.

After all that crap he returned the chair to the default position and told me everything was fine and he'd see me in 6 months.

ANYWAY, the point of my overly-long anecdote is that I was on the end of some rather poor health-related communication, and I was wondering if any of you have ever been in a similar situation, hopefully one that is more interesting and isn't just a bunch of random typing at the end of a long day.

On a side note the bastard charged me £16.46