₦airaland Forum

finallybusy:
Dentists are to blame. Parents teach the skill of brushing to the best of their ability. Dentists should visit schools to promote toothpastes and proper brushing skills. Ninety percent of people with bad breath obtain it from improper brushing. I know a guy who has bad breath because he doesn’t clean his tongue daily. In such case, his parents are to blame. They likely left him to learn it on his own. In these YouTube days, nobody has any excuse to suffer halitosis, pimples and body odour.

Please when last did you see a Dentist?

Have you seen one before?

Have you paid or taken a family member , friend or staff for a routine Dental check?

Nigerians as usual.

You won't go to Dental clinics, you won't brush your teeth, you won't change your toothbrush or research about your oral health ordinary scaling and polishing, you willbeg even those who have money to do.

But you want Dentists to roam the streets educating you about your oral hygiene and begging you to take care of your own mouths?

Yet, your car makes one funny noise, you run to your mechanic, run diagnostics. Why are your mechanics and engineers not roaming the streets educating you about your cars?

I swear being a Nigerian is hard, too many stupid people 😒

If you are in Lagos, there are much cheaper places.

How did you land in a clinic with 46,000?

Lasuth, Ikeja,
Luth, Mushin
Ojokoro Primary Health Centre,
Sura Primary Health Centre

Painless, cheap medication.

It's even cheaper outside Lagos.

Lasuth is just 10,000 apart from card and xray.

Make a small sacrifice too, pay something. You buy food, data, clothes, your health too should matter.

Also remember to care for your other teeth and try to treat Cavities in good time before they degenerate so badly and cause pain.

Silva19:
Good morning everyone,
I just got married 3 months ago and I’ve been trying to conceive. I went for ultrasound last week and this is the report I got.
Please, what are my options of getting pregnant because the pressure from my husband and in-laws is very much
Please help me!!!!!!!

Nna mehn,

First pls, you need to calm down, honestly.
Sometimes that helps, fretting won't get the job done any easier.

Secondly pls, you have cysts on your ovaries that you should get checked out.

Life is in phases, enjoy your current phase and grow in your new environment , someday you will look back at all these and smile and wonder where you were rushing to

Flakky26:
what drug or natural treatment can be used to bring down a stubborn high prolactin? this has caused absence of mentral period for more than 5 years. thank you

Please see your Doctor,
There are several drugs that can be used, cheap, few side effects, and effective within a short while.
Try to get a good Doctor ma.

tiwor:
Please can anyone recommend good hospital for ovarian cyst surgery
I'm tired
I thought I could concieve with it so I can be free,it's getting more complicated
I've used drugs,I've used herbs
The pain is killing
It was my right ovary before now I have it on both ovaries
I'm in lagos

Hello Mama

Sorry this reply may be late.

Pls try to get a good Doctor and work with your doctor.

Ignore what many people here will say about all those castor oil and co, those cysts may have turned and be strangulated, hence the pain.

I've been there trust me, I was begging God to let me die.

I had severe pain from ovarian cysts in 2015 that needed surgery.

The right ovary was gone then, it had to be removed and the cyst filled a 5kg bucket!

The cyst on the left was removed (so, I have only one ovary 😃)

4 days later, I attended my Niece's first birthday party though I was gentle o.

I got married soon after, was I scared, yes!

Took in almost a year after, currently have 2 kids.

With just that operated left ovary.

After my surgery, I did the castor oil massage and did for a short while before my first pregnancy, I researched and did studies on my food and cut out some foods too.

No, it's not a spiritual punishment for something you did, I've only slept with one man in my life.

Sometimes just things just happen to us.

The whole experience made me a better person, a better health worker, I learnt empathy, I learnt that we are all just smiling but so many of us are dying on the inside.

My hospital stay in Lasuth? (As a staff there o? God abeg 😢)

Ayinke house in Lasuth is much better now though, a bit pricey but good.

You can try Ifako Ijaiye General Hospital, General Hospital Lagos Island (kind of faster here).

I'm here if you need more reviews, questions or someone to make you smile small.

Yes, I was scared of surgery.
Yes the surgery was barely 1 hour and painless,
Had some pain after but abeg, I wasn't going to miss that party so I challenged myself to get out of that bed quickly.

Now, if you even observe the picture the Op posted, apart from the tooth with a large hole, there's a molar with a cavity too, a cavity that is still small and I'm sure is not hurting yet.

Common sense won't tell you to fill that hole too o.

If he ends up removing the one with the large hole and in a year or more or less, the other one with the small hole becomes large too and causes pain, you will now say the worms were jumping from one tooth to another.

You will lambast medical personnel, you will say all sorts.

Meanwhile a 15,000 naira filling, 3,800- 5,000 naira xray and 1,000 -3,000 Consultation will fill/ restore that tooth conveniently and prevent future problems.

With people like these, it will take a very long time before this country sees any meaningful development, as in, the thought patterns of many of us scare me.

Now, I told myself I would no longer advice Nigerians again because we are peculiar and no dey hear word but I'll break my rule this one time.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Go for regular dental check ups, don't wait until the whole tooth is bad and it starts affecting other teeth or causes swelling and pain before getting it treated.

We buy skincare products, I can't count how many pages on Ig sell them. Even physical stores.

We take care of our hair, our nails, we invest in our ward robe because we want to look good.

New restaurants are springing up in every corner of the country.

We fix our phones once they have slight faults, computer village is always bustling, many of us use phones worth hundreds of thousands of naira.


Yet we draw the line when it gets to our health and look for the cheap way out.

So many good looking men and women with poor oral hygiene, unsightly calculus on their teeth and stains, terrible mouth odour and missing teeth.

We wait until wounds get out of hand before remembering that hospitals exist.

I saw a woman with late stage breast cancer, I asked why she didn't come earlier (she had a breast swelling for many years) she said it wasn't paining her. So she left the lumps to grow bigger, now she has metastases all over her body. Her kids were practically threatening emergency Doctors to save her and refused referral to another centre as there was no bedspace in that centre.

So many relatives that will bring their relatives to the hospital when they are near death (from diseases and conditions that could have been successfully managed in the early stages), then start threatening fire and brimstone and cursing health personnel for their perceived 'lackadaisical attitude'. Someone you were giving herbs at home for years o, it is now a stranger from nowhere that should love and help save your relative more than you.

Some will use all sort of supplements for years and when the pain is out of hand, they come to the hospital and start fomenting trouble.

We are not serious, I don't think we will ever be serious.

Your brother has a hole, he probably has serious pain, you are here on Nairaland listening to people telling you to use garlic and salt.

Continue pls, thumbs up to everyone. Continue.

GerogeI:
This is no longer a novel issue. Google will give you plenty of reviews,even from dentists.
https://www.naturalandcosmeticdentistry.com/the-truth-about-root-canals-how-are-they-affecting-your-health/#:~:text=What%20are%20the%20dangers%3F,in%20the%20head%20or%20neck.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C667buPSYmq/?igsh=MjVldWVjdHJtbGx2

The first link is not opening.

The second is the IG page of a Dentist who calls herself a biologic Dentist.

She supports Implants instead of root canal treatments because rcts fail. But guess what?

Implants fail too, especially when done by inexperienced Operators or due to patient factors, Implants can cause infections too (periimplantitis).


Now I ask again, pls share scientific evidence/ research based evidence that rcts cause the bones to rot and not IG pages or naturalist sites.

You use your phone because science approved it, we use cars, we use ACs, because we trust science. Don't chuck science away when you need to win an argument.

Provide evidence.

Now, Root canals fail, especially if the teeth are not crowned.

Contrary to your claim that it causes the bone to rot, there's plenty evidence that it allows bone that was being destroyed to grow back around the root(s) of treated teeth, meaning it encourages new bone formation.

GerogeI:
Root Canal is well proven to cause internal rot, and consequently unexplainable routine inflammation.

Do not do root canal, extract the tooth. Further for those of you who already have a root canal, better go for CT Scan check up, to ensure your Jaws and facial bones are not rotting internally.

Pls provide plausible proof that ROOT canals cause the bones to rot. Sensible, scientific evidence o.

Yet Doctors will strike or threaten strike before getting their MRTF.

Has the lift in GH, Lagos that killed that Doctor been repaired?

The Accident and Emergency Unit in Lasuth is without light and water for many hours daily and the place is overrun by Mosquitoes despite the expensive bills and stress making payments.

The place stinks a lot.

There are few beds and the building is too small, hence they turn away and refer many people to other centres.

Very smart governor, he and all the dolts that voted him in.

CrownedPhoenix:
Sewasaunt, battery water?!

Isn't that what he wants to hear?

Isn't that what the average Nigerian wants to hear?

Dental Clinics and hospitals are everywhere but he's on Nairaland looking for what is not lost.

Have you tried using a plier and chisel?

To make it easier, you can first gargle with battery water or all those mumu miracle/ wonder dental concoctions.

You can also take painkillers continuously for it, last last it affects your liver or causes ulcer but at least it will reduce the pain. Win-win if you ask me.

Pls go to a government hospital beside you, the earlier the better before you loose that tooth, then you become worried about being disfigured and spend even more money (that you claim not to have) looking for how to replace the missing tooth.

The earlier, the better.

If your phone gets bad today, you will fix it, you buy clothes, you spend daily, but spending on your health is where many Nigerians draw the line, you people amaze/amuse me.

revived2:
Can you recommended anyone in Ogun state ,I was billed 30k in one state hospital 🥲🥲.... Isn't that too much for a tooth extraction 🥲🥲

I am guessing you need a surgical extraction, that's the only reason a state hospital will charge you 30,000.

Surgical extractions are complex and can be quite expensive, in Lagos some private clinics charge at least 150,000 for them.

You can try OAUTHC dental clinic though.

See ehn. You just can't explain Nigeria.

Many people will abandon their relatives in the hospital and not check up on them and hardly raise hospital fees.

A Lastma official once harassed Doctors for making him take his brother's blood sample to the lab for different tests and said it should be the job of the doctors and we were just stressing family members (just to go to the lab o).

Same person may die and money and energy for burial planning will come out in abundance.

There was a time a woman couldn't afford barely 50,000 for hospital fees after a vaginal delivery.

The hospital let her go when they were tired.

That same week, the family threw a big party for the baby's naming ceremony and killed rams worth multiples of the 50,000 owed.

Nigerians will leave their old parents unattended and barely send money, once the person dies, huge parties will be thrown to "honour the dead" and they can even keep the corpse in the morgue for months just to raise money for a huge burial ceremony.

Emmywizzy05:
Sangotedo but anywhere in ajah, Lagos business school and Lekki that the price is low is also good

Just seeing this, with your location, I replied elsewhere before.

1. Federal dental centre, Broad street
2. Island Maternity, very common
3. Sura Primary Health Centre. Not far from Obalende

Emmywizzy05:
I have been having toothache for a very long time now and i have finally decided to extract it, please where can i get the extraction done in lagos at a low price please
I need help the pain is unbearable

Depends on where you stay in Lagos.

For best prices,

Consultation , xray and simple extraction will be approximately 15,000 (with good hands and best prices) in

1. Lasuth, Ikeja
2. Luth, Idi-Araba
3. Igando General Hospital and any General Hospital around you,
4. Federal Dental Centre on Broad Street,

Any General Hospital around you.

If you don't want to queue or be delayed, you can try
1. Ojokoro primary health Centre around Abule egba or Sura Primary Health Centre on the Island.

I think Mushin health centre and Bariga health centre too, I can't vouch for the Health centre in Egbeda though.

Best wishes.

It's also a relatively painless procedure when done well and you should keep to the post op instructions after and use your prescribed drugs well and in a timely manner.

Aurora44:
Trouble dey sleep yanga dey go wake am. When you want to fight a war, be ready to the fullest and don't accuse people wrongly, unfortunately, your own accusations are true. You will hear from me on Facebook. Let's see the MOD that can remove that one.

Same account that stole $111 barely 3 years ago and blocked the person is here crying about being scammed?

There's nothing I won't see on Nairaland.

So how has your life been?

Hope the $111 is still feeding you? Just kidding, I know you have had a meaningless and hopeless life and guess what?

It's not going to get any better, you will toil constantly with nothing to show for it, year upon year, cycle upon cycle.

You will cry out and no one will hear you, you will hurt and nothing will ease your pain, you will beg for death and even that won't come.

You will run from pillar to post, from high to low, you will be a perpetual stench to yourself and others around you.

Whatever you touch won't flourish, YOU won't flourish.

That money you took has been haunting you and will always haunt you.

Good news will be far from you and everything good will continue to avoid you.

JobAndVacancies:
have you heard of reload drugs?
Is it true it gives weight gain?

Reload is a multivitamin/ dietary supplement. It is good but I don't know and doubt it can cause weight gain.

Orubebe01:
Do you have an idea of how much the permanent one will cost

Permanent replacement can be either a bridge or an Implant.

An implant can be from 500,000 - 1 million naira or more.

A bridge for a single tooth starts from around 240,000 and increases with the number of teeth being replaced but for a bridge healthy teeth beside the missing tooth will have to be trimmed

Orubebe01:
Lagos

A denture is the removable artificial tooth.

For just a tooth= it costs 6,900 in Lasuth, same range in Luth.

Other centres may be a bit more expensive and will be less stressful but one tooth can be up to 15,000.

Gbagade General Hospital or FMC Ebute metta too

There are really good private clinics around too, you can check online and see the reviews.

Orubebe01:
Can you recommend a good dentist for a temporal denture at affordable cost

Please where do you stay?

oxygenator:
mama dentist3:
I have set aside every other comment you made against me so that we can move ahead.
If you need to test efficacy of hbot let's go ahead. But you need to sponsor the project yourself. I have done enough free work, and have undertaken enough risky assignment. I can still extent my benevolence to any medical personnel ranging from Professor of medicine to wardmaid or cleaner involved in free work too. We can also give free Rx to any one as the spirit leads.

Treating CP patient with hbot for free is not like eating agbado and ewa.

Your benevolence?

Free work and risky assignment?

Treating cp with hbot for free is not like eating agbado and ewa?

Did you go through your response at all?

Mehn, I can't believe this is who I was arguing with and trying to see reason with.

I am not against your hbot but there has to be sufficent data and proof that it works, oxygen will improve most cellular processes in the body but at what risk, which conditions?

You can't just be parading it as a miracle cure and after people waste money and time and loose hope you will change your tone again.

It isn't just about you or because I want to attack you, it is about doing the right thing.

I also said I am sure your facility isn't an ethical one.

Nna mehn, you be real one chance.

[quote author=oxygenator
How would the patients or healthcare providers know if they are not informed?[/quote]Lastly? Health providers know sir, they have always known about it, I was taught in school many years ago under management of chronic osteomyelitis.

It's not some hidden secret big pharma is trying to hide from the world.

There's just not enough research into it as well as clinically proven efficacy for it to be advised for other medical conditions.

Even if your bleeping hbot works, someone died and the first thing that came to your retired brain is to advertise your hbot?

Where is your empathy?

Where is your humanity?

If we ask now, your hbot will be crazily expensive and I am sure it's not even in an ethical facility.

You can prove me wrong by posting some details.

I can also link you up with a cerebral palsy patient or any patient of your choice with one of the conditions you have mentioned it helps with willing to undergo hbot for you to try it on free of charge ( because I am sure you are coming to deny being a broke ass marketer).

So what gives hon?

I am waiting

The post I copied, edited and pasted above is from John Hopkins Hospital website.

The main uses clinically are decompression sickness and osteomyelitis.

In the quoted case of seizures above, it has no proven use, you have recommended it for cerebral pasly too- a condition it also has no clinically proven use for.

Don't let your greed blind you.

Stop scamming and misleading people.

It's unfair and very painful to see people like you giving false and inaccurate hope and making those suffering to suffer even more.

Science is evolving and people are working round the clock to bring more therapeutic options for medical conditions but until then, refresh and renew your mind.

I am mama Dentist, what are you?

Mr illiterate, unwilling to learn and improve, no do-gooder, fine bara scammer, bleeping hbot provider

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a type of treatment used to speed up healing of carbon monoxide poisoning, gangrene, wounds that won't heal, and infections in which tissues are starved for oxygen.

For this therapy, you enter a special chamber to breathe in pure oxygen in air pressure levels 1.5 to 3 times higher than average. The goal is to fill the blood with enough oxygen to repair tissues and restore normal body function.

Facts about hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy was first used in the U.S. in the early 20th century.

The therapy was tried again in the 1940s when the U.S. Navy used it to treat deep-sea divers who had decompression sickness. By the 1960s, the therapy was also used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning.

Today, it's still used to treat sick scuba divers and people with carbon monoxide poisoning, including firefighters and miners. It has also been approved for more than a dozen conditions ranging from burns to bone disease, including:

Carbon monoxide poisoning
Cyanide poisoning
Crush injuries
Gas gangrene (a form of gangrene in which gas collects in tissues)
Decompression sickness
Acute or traumatic reduced blood flow in the arteries
Compromised skin grafts and flaps
Infection in a bone (osteomyelitis) that doesn't respond to other treatment
Delayed radiation injury
Flesh-eating disease (necrotizing soft tissue infection)
Air or gas bubble trapped in a blood vessel (air or gas embolism)
Chronic infection called actinomycosis
Diabetic wounds that are not healing properly
Medicare, Medicaid, and many insurance companies generally cover hyperbaric oxygen therapy for these conditions, but may not do so in every case. Check with your insurance plan to see if it is covered and if you need pre-authorization before treatment.

Be aware that HBOT is not considered safe and effective for treating certain conditions. These include: HIV/AIDs, brain injury, heart disease, stroke, asthma, depression, spinal cord injury, and sports injuries.

How does HBOT work?
HBOT helps wound healing by bringing oxygen-rich plasma to tissue starved for oxygen. Wound injuries damage the body's blood vessels, which release fluid that leaks into the tissues and causes swelling. This swelling deprives the damaged cells of oxygen, and tissue starts to die. HBOT reduces swelling while flooding the tissues with oxygen. The higher pressure in the chamber increases the amount of oxygen in the blood. HBOT aims to break the cycle of swelling, oxygen starvation, and tissue death.

What happens during HBOT
Only a healthcare provider should prescribe HBOT. A number of hospitals offer these chambers. People relax, sit, or lie comfortably in these chambers and take deep breaths. Sessions can last from 45 minutes up to 300 minutes, depending on the reason for the treatment.

Your ears may feel plugged as the pressure is raised, like when you're in an airplane or the mountains. Swallowing or chewing gum will "pop" the ears back to

Precautions
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not for everyone. It shouldn't be used by people who have had a recent ear surgery or injury, a cold or fever, or certain types of lung disease.

oxygenator:
RIP to the patient.
One would have suggested hyperbaric oxygen therapy [hbot] for him as he was not responding to standard treatment.

You and your highly insensitive and ignorant ads touting hyperbaric oxygen as the solution to all the problems on earth.

You think if it was that effective, hospitals won't advice it, patients wouldn't rush and you won't have to crawl round threads screaming hyperbaric upandan disgustingly on nairaland?

I pray you don't fall prey to your own unholy trap

JobNeededUrgent:
I've been using xasten for years to gain weight with fat protruded cheeks, but of recent I narrowly escaped death after it wrecked my body system, destroyed my immunity and the doctor told me to drop the drugs asap.. currently boils and psoriasis are all over my skin due to the effects of dexacorten (xasten).
Now I need a better drugs that will make me gain weight especially fat cheeks without side effects like the useless xasten.
Any recommendations please

Op, forget drugs for now if not you may get another steroid drug with a different name and continue to wreck havoc on your body.

Eat well/healthy, rest well and exercise regularly

Most drugs have side effects and long term use should be avoided.