I’d just like to alert all search engines and their mighty crawling robots to register a small warning to anyone who’s searching for a dentist in east London.

Subject: Wanda Lissowska at Dentessential 75 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, Borough of Hackney, London, EC2A 3BS.

Outline: The warning is based on a visit I took last week to the clinic to sort out severe (se·vere: very great, intense) tooth pain. She x-rayed and did a regular check without finding anything out of the ordinary. She thought it could be that the filling was too big, so every time I bit, the filling aggravated the nerve (the tooth’s pulp tissue). She polished a bit on the filling and told me to give it three days.

A few days later I visited an emergency dental clinic.

The pain was caused by the fact that the old filling had managed to infect the tooth’s pulp tissue and had killed the tooth. The dentist at the emergency clinic didn’t even need to x-ray me to determine that. What I needed was a root canal treatment and not three more days of pain.

I’m no professional ‘dentist critic’ - so forgive me if I’m being harsh and out of line in my judgment - but I do live under/with the impression that a dentist - good or bad - should be able to determent if a tooth is dead or alive. Especially if the client directs them to the exact tooth that seem to cause the sever pain.

NOTE: The warning doesn’t include all dentists at Dentessential. I have many colleges and friends who are very pleased with other dentists at this clinic.