On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:24:44 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Robert Payne wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:42:42 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>
>>>> Plus, if you ask 5 dentists about anything, you'll get 5 different
>>>> answers. Some dentists are a stupid as a rock. Everyone has heard of
>>>> the students who are "First in their class". Well, there are always
>>>> the students who were the last in their class also. Those are the
>>>> stupid ones. Trust what they tell you? No way. Always get at least a
>>>> second opinion or even a third and forth on anything that is really
>>>> important. Spend the extra couple hundred dollars to make sure you
>>>> know the real story. Especially if they want to cut you.
>>> Don't even remind me of the ramifications of such things. My
>>> long-time dentist blew my symptoms off for years. The end result
>>> was rather ugly....
>>
>> I can just bet it made the dentist a lot of your money, and the
>> dentist didn't feel a thing. Dentists are like used car salesmen.
>> They'll do or say anything to get more of your money.
>
>It ended up making him no money. I never saw him again. He
>called to see how I was after I ended up in the emergency room
>after he told me it was TMJ, which I didn't believe for one
>second. That's just part of the story.

What is TMJ?