I understand that you go through a medical/dental check up within your first few days of BT, My mouth is pretty messed up right now; cavities, broken fillings, and a chipped tooth. Some of these cause frequent migraines/headaches like the cavities and broken fillings.
What happens when this comes up at Basic Training? Is there a point to the dental check up? Do they fix you up? If they do fix you up how does that affect your time during the training, doing all the crazy things after being drilled on? O.o
Update:The problem is the frequent migraines I get from the problems with my teeth, which could make Basic Training a problem.
If they fix it on the spot, how does that affect your time during Basic Training? Are you just forced to do all the exercises after been drilled on, without any pain reliever? I don't see that being much better than the migraines.. haha
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If you are still at reception let the Drills know you need to go to sick call. Then let them know about your problem, they should hold you over there because it is causing you pain. If they send you to basic still go to sick call in the morning and let the doctors know so they can setup a dental appointment.
They will not take your wisdom teeth out in basic: 1. They simply don't have time...every moment is accounted for. There is no time for recovery, infections, dry sockets, etc. 2. After basic, if they are not bothering you, they will not take them out. Dental care costs money and cannot be wasted on removing perfectly good teeth.
yes they do, or when you get to your first duty station just make an dental appointment or go to dental sick call easy as that
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