Dental Problems

Have the same issue with my current dentist office. The woman dentist says I have a brown spot on my molar and its probably a cavity and wants to remove it. When I see the male dentist there, he never says anything about it. So last time I saw the woman I called her out on it. She said well technically nothing is wrong but I dont like it so I want to remove. I told her Im not letting her drill into my teeth because of "looks" and not creating a problem when there isnt a problem.

I had zero cavities as a kid then our dentist retired when I was 17. New one first visit, boom 4 cavities. 20 years I'm still going there but the problem now is all these new lasers and tools that "detect" cavities before they are visible and "well you better get it fixed before it gets worse". Last time I did that they fucked something up and I went from no pain to intense pain every time I bit down on that side of my mouth. You go back in and complain and they are incredulous, like how could they have done something wrong? Next time they said they needed to fix a cavity before it appeared I said no thanks I'll wait until I'm in pain this time. They also tried to do the same thing with my wisdom teeth as you Cutlery, only my bottom ones erupted and they were trying to tell me they should be removed... I asked why? Because you could get a cavity in them!

Anyways the hygienists are pretty hot and they take my insurance so I'll keep going for cleanings but anything else major I'd probably get a second opinion at this point.

don't know if i posted in this thread or rustled or somewhere else. my dentist retired before covid. got booked a new place (an association with multiple dentists), covid hit. go to my appointment, a dentist is in the parking lot arguing with a couple because dude hasn't taken the shot and she won't see him after they drove an hour. the hygienist who was supposed to do my cleaning/checkup was out with covid. so i just gave up as no place would take new patient with out the jab. they end up just closing due to covid.
couple years go by, that place has 2 new dentists who take non-jabs. get checkup, dentist-1 find one cavity and my old fillings are not great, get appointment for filling. wait, dentist-1 retires, see dentist-2, she looks at same x-rays, sees 2 cavities. fill 1, make appointment to fill other. wait, dentist-2 leaves. place get new dentist, go for new checkup, he sees 4 cavities. they make 2 appointments, as they are in pairs and can be done together. appointment 1, goes well, but he only does 1 tooth, saying it required more work then they thought. appointment 2, goes well, but he only does 1 tooth, saying it required more work then they thought. after this filling, it was sensitive for about a week, but was ok. appointment 3, does 1 tooth again. says i need 3 more fillings. this filling was super sensitive, like couldn't drink anything cold at all. shit would throb. dentist said, it was deep and might need a root canal, but it can take awhile for sensitivity to go away. i bought sensitive toothpaste and used it like 4 times a day. for a while, couldn't even rinse my mouth out afterwards. it took nearly a month for it to feel normal.

none of these cavities were causing any pain. the old fillings were when i was young, like 40+ years ago. i now have a cleaning-checkup in july and appointment for fillings after the summer, unless they start causing pain. there are a couple places doing $100 1st visit - xray/exam which i might do before going back for more fillings.

from the late 80's to 2020, i had 1 cavity and an imbalance that had to be corrected. my teeth on my dominate side had worn more than the other, so they ground a tiny bit off a couple of teeth. i thought it was a toothache, but it was muscles and stuff.