"Robert Payne" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:24:44 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
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>>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?

I can't remember the exact words that it stands for but it's a painful
condition of the jaw.