Murder House aka Dental Clinic

Hehe who else called the Dental Clinic the Murder House? Crazy things we do & say as kids. It wasnt really that bad was it? Getting stickers & little ghost puppets etc to take our teeth home in

Anyway I was wondering when do you enroll & at what age do you first take your kids to the dentist?
My plunket nurse mentioned something about enrolling Brae at his 2yr check but i cant remember & havent heard anything Or is it something that happens when they are 3?

Do you go to a public dentist or a school one? Maybe this is something i need to get on to right away?

No wonder there is so many kids in my district with yucky teeth, cant be just the water thing, more likely a lack of care!!

Umm I am really bad Andrew hasn't been yet and he is 3 years. I filled in a form with the plunket nurse a week ago so i'm hoping that someone will call us. If they don't then next term i'll ring the local school one and he can go there.

I think you can just ring your local primary school and they will see you there. We took Kobe when he was one and then two even though he sees the hospital dental aswell. They dont do much but its good to get them used to it. I remember being terrified of getting the note to go to the dentist at school, drinking heaps of water on the way hoping my teeth would be clean!

i calle dit murder house to gloria.
lol i used to get terrified abot the dental nurse notes to.
mine was lovely, although when she retired and bought a shop she used to tell me to show her my teeth everytime i saw her. quite embarrassign in a shop lol.

i never got given a form from plunket (but then again ive had nothing but trouble with plunket in the lower hutt area), my plunket book for haleigh says 2yrs and james's one says 1.
in OZ they dont book them in apparently till 4, but i will take haleigh in over there earlier.

i havent heard anything about taking tash to the dentist/ infact we have been in putaruru for over a year now and despite leaving a number of messages i have still not heard anything from plunket.and i dont even know what school the dental nurse would be at.

does it cost if i take them to the normal dentist?i would love for tash to go to the dentist i go to cos he is just wonderful.
sorry to hijack your thread gloria.

I got a form from Plunket when I went in this week and she just told me to fill it out and take it to a local school. I was worried that Alyssa isn't ready for a dental nurse to be touching her yet as she hates strangers, but the lady said it's just to put her on the register...she won't be seen for ages anyway.

Anyway - back to the "murder house", yes we called it that in primary school too!! The worst thing is that every time that damn notebook came into class I KNEW it would be for me!! It seemed like I was getting a filling every week for ages and I cried every time!

The thing was, by the time I was about 10, my mum took me to a proper dentist to fit a plate and he was absolutely shocked that I had so many fillings he said I definitely didn't need any of them! He rang my school dental nurse and blew her up until she was in tears!

Apparently it was quite common for dental nurses to be so bored they would "practice" fillings on children and this dental nurse even admitted it to him. I feel annoyed that I still have fillings on some of my second teeth that shouldn't be there

AlyAyde wrote: pepsi, That is a crock of S**t and i am so offended! (not your story but what the dentist said) Maybe because you were young you got the wrong end of the stick. when they were training the training nurses were supervised doing filling work. But none did work that wasnt required .

Yeah well that was 20 years ago now that I had been to that dentist and who knows how many people over the years he shared his opinions with? All I know is that it pissed my mum off enough that I never went back to the dental nurse at school again after that, and coincidentally never had another filling until 1 a couple of years ago.

I'm sure if it there was a big conspiracy of dental nurses giving unnecessary fillings in the 80's then it would have hit the news, so obviously he was most likely overeggagerating. As for the one dental nurse at my school, I guess I'll never know the truth.

The dental nurse doesn't really do much just has a quick look and then tells u all about dental hygiene. We got a free toothbrush and stickers too