Do it yourself dentist?

[Osensitive1]

Must have missed this thread before. Good to hear your teeth are better, richard.

Next time perhaps you could ask for laughing gas, nitrous oxide.  It doesn't eliminate the pain or discomfort, you just don't have a reaction or emotion to it.  You don't laugh, much less hysterically, and can usually drive yourself home by the time you pay your bill. 

One time as a kid, they forgot me on the gas. Long time, think they went to lunch. Couldn't walk for a bit afterwards.

[Queen Victoria]

Here if you are under a care plan (if you're on a pension) you can get dentist treatment covered by Medicare, which means you get back virtually everything you pay, or sometimes you pay nothing at all. And if you visit the doctor while on a pension, they usually bulk bill, so Medicare covers that as well.

Even if you are admmitted to a public hospital for an operation.

Alas, American Medicare doesn't cover routine dental care.  It may cover dental care from an accident.  Neither does it provide glasses.

[RageBeoulve]

I got the VA to give me glasses.