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Hi all - I have lived in Stockholm for like 12 years and most of this time relied on my old dentist in my home country, but since the onset of the pandemic I have, embarrassingly, not seen a dentist at all, and now I needed some pretty urgent dental work done.

The urgent work got done, but is more work that needs to be done soon. However, the dentist told me that I needed to first go see a dental hygienist for a cleaning procedure, only then could I book an actual dental examination to decide what work I need done when. The catch is that while the waiting time for a dentist are modest, waiting times for a cleaning procedure can be considerable - up to a month or more.

That seemed extremely odd and backwards to me. In my head, the high-effort and high-urgency work should be done first, then the polish later. But the dentist assured me that these were national Swedish rules, and that there was nothing to do about it - I needed cleaning first, then examination, then repairs, in that order.

So now I ask you, dear Sweddit: Is this really correct? Does national law really dictate that I need to go through this song and dance, potentially wasting months, when I know for a fact that I have cavities that need repair?

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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/thriveth at 2023-07-08 15:22:31+00:00.