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Oh boy.

Years ago I visited my home country with my partner. She used to prefer going to dentist there, old habits I guess. On this particular trip I agreed to a check up as well - It had been a while since I had my teeth checked, why not?

Really fancy dentists. Big offices, flashy machines, everything looked pristine. X-rays are taken, teeth are checked. Result: You need root canal! You should have it done soon, it's going to get much worse and hurt a lot more! We can do book you in ASAP.

Hollllld on. I was on holiday, I'm not about to have a root canal procedure done and ruin my time off. I'll take the xrays and check back with a dentist back home.

I pay dearly for the check and xrays and proceed to not enjoy my time off as much as I could have - I was worried.

Fly back home, book a session with my usual dentist. "I can't see anything wrong with this tooth. But let me do an xray as well... Nope. Can't see anything wrong."

It has been around 5 years now. That dentist would have performed root canal on me for no apparent reason...

One really interesting conversation I had with my usual dentist:

Me: So really, nothing wrong? Why would they say otherwise?

Dentist: Nothing wrong. I'm not sure why they told you otherwise.

Me: That's just...

Dentist: Tell you what, they say it's this tooth points, right? Do any other of your teeth look different in the xray? Check the root as well, pay close attention.

Me: I don't see any difference, but I'm not a dentist...

Dentist: Well, I am a dentist, but I also see no difference.