I’m American and in addition to our messed up healthcare system. Teeth are simultaneously so important that I have to see a specialist (dentist) for routine care, but so unimportant that it’s not included in my healthcare coverage. Is it like that elsewhere?
I had a lipoma removed for free under Medicare a couple of years back, much to the shock of at least three doctors who insisted that it couldn’t be done.
Mind you, now I’m 20 months into a 90-day waiting period to have my gallbladder removed…
I feel you. I’m near that for three protruding discs in my neck with one pushing on my spinal cord.
12 months to see a hospital physio who got me in front a surgeon the next day, he wondered how I was still walking. 9 months later, im still waiting for something to happen next.
Same thing happened to me with my lipoma. it was 15cm in diameter by the time a GP finally referred me for surgery. The surgeon said “yeah we like to remove them when they’re 5cm diameter or greater”. Which was the size it was when I first saw a doctor about it.
It was about 18 months before I got surgery, when they told me it was a 6-month wait. So I’m sure you’ll get seen before too long =)