no room at the inn

so nhs red tape surrounds me, and I am totally not pleased.  stupid NHS.

I went to the dentist on Monday, cause my wisdom teeth had been killing me since the previous Thursday.  He looked at them, told me one had an infection, prescribed me antibiotics and told me that both wisdom teeth needed to come out and that he couldn't do the procedure.  He referred me to another clinic in Thamesmead, so I went up there, needless to say that was a waste of time.

Today I spent 4 hours at Guys Dental Hospital to be told the following

 - I have an infection surrounding the gum of both lower wisdom teeth

-  both lower wisdom teeth are impacted and therefore need to be removed

so you'd think by now, they'd give me something to sort out the infection and then do the procedure to take out the teeth.  well if you thought that, you only got 1 out of 2 right.

They gave me antibiotics to take but then said, "although the teeth should come out, we can't take them out, because you don't meet the criteria." 

It turns out that the government put a quota in place a few years back, because dentists were taking out wisdom teeth left right and centre, and wasting money and resources.  So now wisdom teeth can only be removed if the patient suffers with pain on more than 1 occassion and the pain is bad enough for them to visit the hospital, or there is an unknow growth on the tooth.
ARGH!!  I have never heard such bollocks in my life.

As this was my first time to the dentist for this issue/problem, and there is no abnormal growth on either tooth, I can't have them out.  Instead I have to suffer in pain.

I even looked at going private and was quoted £400.  what a joke.  in this day in age how do they expect people to afford that?

I am giving serious consideration to just taking out private health and dental and telling the UK Government to give me back my freaking NI Contributions, cause lets face it, by the time I retire in 50 odd years there probably wont be a state pension, so what is the point in me paying nearly £300 a month in NI contributions and getting nothing in return.

I fucking hate the NHS, I really fucking do!