Dentist Greed leads to paitient misery

I feel I have been robbed of a good tooth by a greedy industry which doesn't really care for what is best for the patient but only what it has been trained for. Whilst dentist may be trying to do good, they certainly don't stick to what they should, which is to inform and to offer solutions proper, not to guess and then to act in ways which are effective tooth attack:

I went to the dentist because I was afraid,

but all the dentist wanted was to be paid,

he told a tale of future woe,

in my mind doubt to sow,

He focused me, on a healthy tooth,

He showed past decay and called it proof,

I did not come to have that done,

I came because root canals really are not fun,

I came to just get him to take a look, as to avoid future stuck.

In my mind, I felt it should,

Be a tiny filling, a test of how good!

Something simple, something small,

I didn't expect my tooth to be mauled!

So in the chair I sat thrilling, expecting but a quick moments drilling, 

Injection, so quick, without my say, a rotten trick for him to pay, 

I sat there then and felt a tickle, that was good, the hole was little,

Then as I sat, my senses screamed, what was he doing, this dental fiend,

He kept on drilling, my good tooth he was a killing!

What could I do, but keep very still and hope this man had some real skill,

When he was through, in he shoved, composite goo, the stuff he loved,

He pressed down hard, then shined a light, declaring everything to be done right.

I left that day, feeling fine, oh how terrible a future time.

Seriously, research dentistry online, unless your in a position where your in unbearable pain, look to your diet, look to massage, look to antibiotics (where appropriate) and if the pain remains unbearable or keeps rising after each day, finally go to the dentist.

I do realise the job is very difficult and I realise that it's always going to be some level of expert guessing (even when work is required), which is where our role as patients come in stopping them terrorising our mouths. We need to say "STOP" let me think about this over night.

I'm most upset at myself, I knew better at the outset, but I let the fear of seeing a 'cavity' drive me, and not enough, since I let him work on a tooth I was happy with and was pain free *sigh*.

Sorry I know I'm going on, but just think how I am saving YOU from going on by sharing my experience and this advice as you leave the dentist chair and truely consider "is it worth the risk". Without being fooled by the dentist pretense of 'this is easy'.