Spock

No one puts sugar on fries.

(They actually have 6 microscopes) I understand you and appreciate your advice and opinions. The onus is on me to then do my own research and not blame anyone but myself if I make the wrong decision. With Thailand's harsh defamation laws I can fully understand you not wanting to be critical of other practices. Your information actually helps me select a dental option in my own country, such as selecting an endodontist over a dentist for a root canal on a tooth where there is not much back up in my mouth if anything goes wrong. Keep up the good work. I find this thread really useful.

I asked about root canal and also read on the BIDH website that they only have one endodontist and appointments are very difficult. However, having read all the reviews of the Dental hospital, if I was flying in and out of Bangkok for booked treatment, I am not sure I could trust the dental hospital. The vast majority of bad reviews are of management and reception as well as deceptive pricing, though there are several that are critical of the dentists too. The most negative reviews are post 2018 since their move to On Nut. Many people complaining about long waits for treatment and for their bill, as well as treatment not being completed within the planned time frame. On the basis of the many reviews I read, I could not trust this place if I was not a resident of Bangkok.

It's not very well reviewed.

I assume that by dental hospital you are referring to is the one in Silom not the BIDH in Sukhumvit. The former doesn't get reviewed very favourably and there are few reviews compared to BIDH. Personally, I find hospital or clinic recommendations a bit difficult to truly observe because it's the individuals working within those places in whom I need to have faith rather than the overall reputation of the establishment. With hospitals and clinics that have different people for different roles, it's almost impossible to truly establish the worth of a place as you could be dealing with so many different people. I have used BIDH in the past for simple procedures such as teeth cleaning and am suspicious of their methods. For root canals and implants you need to have some knowledge regarding the competence of the person performing the task.

He said it was an Australian restaurant that put sugar on fries, something which as an Australian I have never come across.

I lived there 6 months in 1995 after 5 years in Bangkok and found it much more expensive than Bangkok. I had a car too which meant I did not have to deal with the transport mafia. I couldn't get out of Phuket quickly enough.

So long as the Russians largely confine themselves to Phuket I don't particularly care as it's an area of Thailand I have no desire to ever again visit.

Are there good endodontists in Thailand? May need a couple of root canals on back lower molar and wisdom tooth. Given the jaw has lost about 50% of the bone, I'd be paying for root canals on teeth that may not last long enough to justify a high cost. Not much chance of an implant with so little bone, but the bone has been stable for 4 years, the teeth are firm and perform a vital function. I need to keep them. Someone mentioned a relationship between jaw bone quality and other bone areas - I started getting osteoporosis at around 40 yrs of age. I am going for a 3D scan of the area next week.

Are you saying that bone grafts to provide more bone for an implant is useless because bone does not grow? If so, why do so many people have bone grafts before implants?

That was then, this is now.

I think you missed some key points. You need to reread the article and the charges he is facing. And if you think it is OK for a mid 20s teacher to film himself having sex with a 16 perhaps 15 year old student and remove her from her home against her parent's wishes, you are clearly deluding yourself regarding the implications of this situation for the ticktocker.

Do your research. It does not matter. Don't know why you are defending this sleaze given the video he made, the age at which he recruited her, the fact he is her teacher and the parents' complaints. Not to mention the complaints and dismissal from a previous school.

America can take action against any citizen having underage sex overseas as can Australia.

If his 'bird' has told her parents and they took action against him against him, then she obviously doesn't think as highly of him as you surmise. I hope the guy being her teacher has the book thrown at him. Get sick of these influencers making big bucks out of bugger all.

No one deserves being beaten up by twice their number, losing three teeth in the process.

Fortunately, there is a lot to criticize.

Umm, I remember him for the 'shoot a dealer and small time user' campaign in which thousands were summarily shop. I don't need to moralise about anything else he is purported to have done. He is on the same low moral level already as Dutertes from the Philippines.

Just because the rich do deals the world over doesn't mean that ordinary folk have to accept it.

Why 10 times the cost? It's already quite expensive. Medicinal ganja in Melbourne Australia is about $10 (115 baht) a gram. Why would anyone expect to a hospital in Thailand to charge 10 times the current prices.

I use Facebook regularly and use Facebook messenger to keep in touch with friends overseas. I have lots of criticisms of Facebook, largely confined to the lack of censorship or Reel's videos relating to animal cruelty - report an act of cruelty and FB inevitably says it falls within their guidelines and will not remove it. However, if there are scams occurring via Facebook, I am totally oblivious to them or how people get scammed via Facebook pages. Thailand would be placing itself in the same camp as China in banning Facebook and would be one of the very few countries in the world to ban it. Thais love Facebook and banning its use would be enough to bring down a government if done close enough to an election.

To demonstrate that the law is equally applied to all, the Red Bull heir would be languishing now in a Thai jail. Thais are not particularly concerned and never have been at what appearances may suggest about the justice system.

Is that you, Yingluck? Don't worry! He'll be home soon!

Also good to know they have access to wifi to keep in touch with family and friends. And laptops and phones.

Thai prisons could not care less if you are very sick - I know through having to fly from Australia to help a Thai friend receive medical treatment for what was TB. That said, it's a bit farcical that Thaksin becomes ill enough to be removed to hospital less than 24 hours after being detained.