Why didn’t I think of being a dentist?

Yesterday, AS had some problem with his teeth so we decided to go and see a dentist. I had no idea that they are so busy. We had to ring 20+ places to find one free dentist. Most of them were either closed or fully booked out for the next few days. Finally we found one who would takes us but asked to come straight away as they were open for half day on Saturdays. As soon as we put the phone down, both of us were running around to get ready quickly. 

After rushing through traffic and parking we ran to the dentist’s place and were glad that they were still open. 

The receptionist asked AS to fill some paper work and then ushered him into a room inside. I followed him as I wanted to know what’s wrong with him. 

She asked him to lie down on the big chair and then came a dentist. She looked like she was in her late 30’s and she had a very loud high pitch voice. She put on a mask and took an x-ray and looked for a few minutes. Then she told us that as she is very busy before Christmas, she will have to do a temporary fix for now but AS has to have a major work done on that tooth after Christmas. It took the dentist another 5 minutes to do her temporary fix and we were out in the reception again. 

The thing that hit me was the bill that came, literally for a 20 minutes job, $150. Seriously why didn’t I think about being a dentist, I would be swimming in money by now. I was so glad that we had private health insurance otherwise that is a big bill for 20 minutes work. 

Then she printed out a long itemised list as a quote for the permanent fix and it totalled up to $2,500. Seriously, just for one tooth? 

I swear I am making at least one of our kids a dentists even if they don’t want to. They will thank me later.