Malpractice

Lately, I've been feeling like my horrible former orthodontist, who still practices in NJ, should be held accountable for completely not fixing, not even making a dent, in my dental work that I had done, TWICE, by his shoddy practice. I ventured to their office website last night, and it was typical, kind of internet via 1999 with neon colors and lame shots of this class A douche bad and his son, who is also now an orthodontist at the same office. VOM.

But now that I'm a mature adult, this makes me incredibly enraged. My parents paid upwards
of ten grand to this awful, vile serpent who was never friendly, smelled bad, and ran his practice out of a large old victorian house that was converted into a medical office. Why did they bring me there? And when my teeth weren't corrected after the first time, why did my mother bring me back to him? She should have taken me to another doctor. Why did my mother never make dentist appointments for me? Or take me to a gynecologist when I was 15? Why didn't SOMEONE? Why didn't someone, SOMEONE, close to me, EVER, AT ALL, say: Kate, you may need to get your teeth fixed again? I had money at one point. Just goes to prove how shitty your family and friends can be when you aren't looking. I really wasn't looking for quite a long time,
maybe as close as I should have been.

I want to at least call this man's office and let him know that now, at 29 years old, my teeth are still messed up and the five years total of braces I had didn't work. His promise of fixing my teeth without extraction didn't work. I felt rage so intense last night, I had to just close my eyes and take a moment to remind myself that I was at work, and had to focus on said work. But I feel so violated and cheated, and not only me, but my parents, who trusted this old, miserable fool to do his job correctly. He fucked up, and fucked up TWICE. Sent me packing with my retainer and that was it. And there was one time where I showed up chewing gum, which is not something you should do when you have braces. I understand that now. But I was 15, and stressed out at home. My mother was dying of cancer. And I will never forget how this digusting jerk verbally abused me, a CHILD, in front of his entire office staff about chewing the gum. He began screaming at me, then demanded to speak to my mother. I told him she wasn't there, and he began yelling at me again, asking why she wasn't with me. Finally, I said, because she is
home, she has cancer, and she is dying. This man's face turned a few shades of purple, and he eventually apologized after a long period of silence.

Anyway, he was obviously not a very good doctor. Greedy, and probably lied and said he could fix my teeth without extraction to get paid. From the looks of his website, he has had a face lift, too. The world is not a fair place. I don't really believe in things like karma and justice. I just want to get in bed, curl into a ball, and float away.