Ugh, no, I totally understand. We went to a very old fashioned dentist throughout my childhood and then he finally retired fully and we started seeing a modern dentist with new fangled things like x rays and electric drills (yes, my old dentist was VERY old!). This new one was also trendy and the fad in the late 70s early 80s was to take out the slightest bit of decay then overfill the tooth with massive amalgam fillings. So I ended up having about 6 or 7 of these massive fillings where he (I later found out) took out healthy tooth as well as the decayed part - which unsurprisingly left my teeth structurally weaker. If I had the energy and proof I'd flipping track him down and sue the bugger. I've had no end of problems since. And the kicker is he wouldn't even have done it for the money because I was under 18 at the time and getting my treatment at no cost on the NHS.

Dentists, huh? Finding a good one who isn't motivated by profit is frigging hard. Which is why I maintain dentistry should never have been privatised in the first place.