I get discouraged from good oral care by the shittiness of dentists. I know it should be the opposite.
It's just that every time I have work done, they just make shit worse.
'Hey, have a root canal! Whoops, we didn't seal your root canal properly, now it's infected and it looks like your tooth rotted and broke...hey, now that we pulled it, actually, that tooth's root was still intact. Man, that sucker sure was hard to pull out of there, LOL!'
Add:
Wisdom teeth that I'm not sure needed to be pulled...when I went through military enlistment, they X-rayed all of us, and mine looked totally fine/had plenty of room. They were not shy about yanking your wisdom teeth during BCT if they thought they were going to give you problems. A few years later, the wisdom teeth that were already fully grown in are supposedly 'crowding' and causing some of my dental issues...
Drilling cavities and filling them like a migrant worker doing bodywork on rusted out '79 Chevy pickup. Yeah, just slather that tooth-bondo on there, thanks. You can always go back and dremel on that tooth for thirty minutes to remove all the excess. Oh wait, I still can't bite down; fuck you.
I am a dental-defeatist at this point. Sigh.