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?

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    In Australia we also consider teeth to be luxury bones, so they aren’t included in our health care

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      It’s a miracle the emergency department is still free with the way our country has been going.

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        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…

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          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.

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            12 months to see a hospital physio who got me in front a surgeon the next day, he wondered how I was still walking.

            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 =)