IceAgeComing
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2016, 10:40:02 PM » |
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I can sympathise with the whole not changing dentists because its a faff to do so thing: I've always used the same dentist and I can't imagine I'll change until I've moved somewhere long term. This led to something quite silly happening when I went in to get the hygienist to fix a tooth I managed to chip (Cricket fielding practice; ball must have hit a hard piece of ground and bounced much higher than I was expecting and got my face, chipping one of my teeth) and book a checkup over Christmas and ended up leaving with three appointments on all three of the mornings that they were open between Christmas and New Year: one for a checkup and two just in case I needed any work done, since the hygienist apparently noticed a few things. I suppose it helps when you've been going to the same dentist since you were born and the staff hasn't really changed: I think they got a new receptionist ten years ago and that's the last change I can remember.
Most optical stuff isn't covered in terms of vision impairments, some things are but I can't remember what they are. For people in full time education they pay a certain amount of the cost for glasses but it never covers the whole thing unless you get the cheap ugly frames and the cheapest lenses, which aren't great. I'm very short sighted so I usually pay a fair bit more to get thinner lenses and a decent looking frame since I wear them all the time so I need something that looks nice - nothing like my Mum who has awful eyes: it costs her obscene amounts of money to get a pair, I'd like to say at least £500? She could get it done cheaper but again it'd leave her with something which was more uncomfortable and which doesn't work anywhere near as well: she has astigmatism which makes things more complicated apparently, plus is very very short sighted.
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