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It transpires that I have a hole in my tooth that previously had a 'harmless' crack in it, and so I am having a filling in it on Monday.

NHS Dentists now have this weird pricing scheme where check-ups and cleaning and suchlike is 15.90, basic treatment like a filling is 43.50, and more complicated treatment is a hundred and something pounds with extra bonus pence. The unnecessary degree of precision in the prices screams 'false precision in estimates' to me...

I also went to Maelstrom. It would have been more fantastic had I managed to drink more than two litres of water on Saturday. This was probably the cause of feeling a bit flat and dissociated all event (i.e. I was me, doing what I thought Tourmaline would do, rather than Tourmaline, most of the event - I guess this is actually *less* 'dissociated' from my actual self than I like to be at LARP events!). Tourmaline was pretty happy with the progress I made towards his goals, though.

Now all I have to do is somehow get back into sorting out the RefWiki before we need it for planning next academic year's Treasure Trap events...

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Woah, it sounds like for advanced treatment I'm better off going private! I've been offered a root canal and porcelain filling for £40 to £60, and basic fillings at my place are around £40. Don't know what the NHS lot are playing at there!

Weird. I had a look around the private dentists in the area here, but they were all £80 for an initial check-up and probably about £100 for a filling. The NHS dentist I'm seeing will do a basic white filling privately for £70.

Good Lord! Remind me never to get toothache up your way. I paid £30 for an initial check-up! Clearly it pays to shop around a bit.

NHS dentistry is really shamefully broken.

It appears to be quite friendly and competent in Cambridge so far. I suppose I'll find out how actually competent they are on Monday :).