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| Thread ID: 124045 | 2012-04-02 10:41:00 | Root canals do they cause cancer? | forrest44 (754) | PC World Chat |
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| 1268085 | 2012-04-04 06:54:00 | . The only thing to fear following a root canal is the bill . I had a root canal as part of reconstructive dental work following a road accident, and the dental surgeon (and I use that term very loosely) jammed a drill in a molar then walked me down the corridor (with half his surgery hanging off my mouth) to get to an old fashioned slow-speed drill head that had the herbs to reverse it out . The reason it jammed was revealed only a couple of years ago when the tooth had to go because of a serious bone infection underneath . The incompetent twit had drilled right into the jawbone, which conveniently dropped a whole lot of crap in there just to help things along, then he sealed it up and the jawbone finally started rotting away . It was a close thing but it was found quite by accident and just in time and or I would have had needed a bone graft . It was a major job to repair and I had to argue for a year or more to get ACC to come to the party, and then the p***ks wouldn't cough up a cent until I had every other tooth brought up to as-new spec, but that one was given a temporary cleanup a little sooner at my expense . The other teeth had been cracked in the accident and fell apart one by one, but anything with a filling in it was ruled out by the miserable !*&$#@ . Anyway, the final job involved 6 crowns and $7000 that we didn't have, so I took advantage of a GE Money 'interest free for one year deal' to get the readies . I read the fine print and saw that if I missed just one monthly payment by as little as an hour I would end up with the full usurious interest bill at around 22% for the whole sum borrowed (leastways that is how I interpreted it) and that gave me conniptions so I wasn't going to take any chances . I diaried every payment a week in advance for the full year and paid it via a direct transfer to the GE account well before due-date for each instalment . Then I cancelled the account the day after the last payment, but that didn't stop them writing to me and offering an even bigger loan because of my 'excellent repayment record" . I didn't need a lobotomy or a walletectomy so I declined . Who said you can't borrow money interest free? But I feel sorry for anybody who uses them, or their ilk, and doesn't or can't read the fine print . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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