Ah the Dentist!

As you can imagine Noel was not looking forward to the dentist Visit and so after a quick breakfast we headed up South McCall Road to the Englewood Dentist practise which clearly was quite large. The waiting room would easily accommodate 40 people and so Noel checked in and had to fill out his complete life story before he could see a Dentist.
After a short wait a rather elderly lady arrived to say Welcome to the practise and I would like to show you around the practise as you are a new patient of ours. I explained that we were here only on a visit but anyway it was her job and so I was shown the team of six hygienist’s and they have four full time Doctors/Dentists and the total amount of staff is 22.

They have a small conference room which can be used to discuss patients care programme and then on to the sterilisation room, I thought about explaining that I had already been sterilised, but perhaps she would not see the funny side of it and then on to the Doctors/Dentist individual rooms and of course all I want to do is get in and out as fast as possible.
Finally I could see a Doctor but before that they needed photo of the damaged tooth and also an X-Ray but as this tooth is right at the back I suffer from a gagging problem and so getting the X-Rays took much longer than usual but finally after four attempts e made it. I further explained that the Insurance company only cover without approval and amount up to about $ 650.00 and then the Dentist arrived and poked around for a bit and then finally he had two options, one expensive and the less so. The  most expensive was about S 1211.00 for a crown which would take a little while to make and fix and how long are you staying or a quick fix for $ 275.00 which I finally chose and yes we can do it next week. Oh that means I have to be careful for the next week but I also mentioned that I am on holiday and very flexible and if there was a cancelation I could possibly come. Within an hour of getting home the phone rang, can you come tomorrow at 0940 Yes no problem I said and so hopefully tomorrow we will be fixed up
We had done a little shopping on the way home from the Dentist and so we had a quiet afternoon with Noel continuing to look for Caravan Insurance quotes and the watched the Liverpool  game which they won much to the shock of the German league leaders.
Finally some swimming and a nice salad for tea and then watched the last episode of the Formula 1 Netflix programme, which is really good. The Australian GP will be on at some unearthly hour here of around 0200 in the morning and we have now found out that it will be repeated during the day and so we will watch the re-runs, you never know perhaps the result will change.
Oh well bedtime beckons and an earliesh morning for us as we have to leave the house just after 09.00 to reach the Dentist for an 0940 appointment, not looking forward to this at all.