Superglue?
What? Did he run out of duct tape?
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My friend had a Polish nanny for the summer of 1990. She was at the dentist every other week. I asked her why. She said, "it's great over here. You have Novacaine."
Industrial Super Glue: It's the Sam Adams of Super Glues, don't you know...
Doesn't sound like "he joys of socialized medicine", sounds more like he finds a series prollem with it.
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Yeah, just the countries in Europe with electricity have this problem, thank goodness.
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What an idiot. I've found that solder works better and lasts longer.
I did the same thing recently, While camping with the Boy scouts I broke my crown, Rather than cut short the trip "a little dab will do ya"! Sometimes you need to improvise.
Back home my Dentist thought I was nuts.
I'm not sure it's so much socialism as it is just that the government restricts the licensing of dentists. We have the same problem here, although more in the case of physicians than dentists. Of course, the government does license dentists here, but the efforts to keep their numbers down have not been as aggressive as with the case of physicians.
He's too cheap to drop $190 on teeth?
I have full coverage and had to spend $400 for a crown.
That said, cyanoactrylate adhesives (Superglue) are real good for bonding skin. I use it for minor cuts and scrapes.
I think if he stopped off at the local petrol depot and stuffed the air compressor in his mouth to use the air to dry off the gum, he would have gotten much better long term results.
ROFLOL. I went to the dentist after losing a cap, and he charged me $90 for re-seating it with glue. His fix lasted 90 days and he wanted another $90. I cleaned the cap and used Super Glue, and my first fix lasted 6 months. The last time I was in Volgograd, Russia, and when it came out my wife suggested we go to her dentist. His office was comparable to an American dentist in the eighties. He cleaned the cap, glued it, and charged me 20 Rubles. That translates into approximately 70 cents.
Reminds me of when I was younger and working in a hardware store. Someone came in and was buying a variety of plumbing tols and parts. He described the new plumbing in his house he was going to do. I remember the plumber parts manager telling him that he may want to have a plumber come in and do it. Costly, but it'd be done right. "No thanks." Wasn't more than 2 days later when a local plumber came in. Sure enough, Mr Fixit had done it wrong and caused a major leak that ruined the plumbing, woodwork, carpets, and more.
The damage to later repair is insuring that one of my brethren in the UK can put down a good downpayment on a Jaguar.
Heck, I was doing that about 10 years ago when one of my crowns kept falling out.
They didn't write a story about me!
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I saw a guy pull his own tooth with a pair of pliers, but I have never had any desire to try it myself.