Unethical Money grabbing dentist Dr Schlebusch with no empathy and care for this patient

<p>I have never complained about a medical professional on a public forum before as many of my family are medical professionals. I need to get this off my chest as it is too upsetting just to keep it to myself. I am an invalide in a wheel chair due to a chronic and incurable multi systemic neuro immune disease called Myalgic Encephelylatis or ME for short. I also developed a heart condition called atrial fibrillation a few years ago with my heart stopping in a few years ago and shocked back to revive me I am in a bit of a crash health wise with my ME made worse by a local dentist from east London SA Dr Dawie Schlebusch of of NU Smile dental in Beacon Bay To make a long story short my wonderful cardiologist dr Lubbe in east London discovered my heart very enlarged due to my atrial fibrillation. He suspected that high blood pressure and sleep apnea contributing factors. He referred me to the sleep clinic which diagnosed sleep apnea and in good faith referred me to dr Schlebusch who did a course to help remedy sleep apnea with a device you put in your mouth to stop snoring and resulting sleep apnea. We decided to have it made even at a cost of over six thousand rand out of our own pockets as we could not wait that long before our return to the UK where we live half of the year where dentist hubby could make me one for free As i am mostly housebound you cant imagine how all these appointments sapped my strength and i am in considerable pain all the time. Dr Schlebusch appeared to be a very nice man at first and made an impression of my mouth the first visit.He did not warn us that the device might not work and we had complete faith that it would as dentist hubby make these type of devices himself and made me one a few years ago which worked perfectly from the start. Unfortunately i lost it and hubby started wearing earplugs for my snoring as we de did not realise the adverse effects of seep apnea on my heart. When i came to have the device fitted the second time with Dr Schlebusch it was not back from the lab which wasted my energy and strength. I had to come back another time [hour drive back and there] He fitted the device then and that night hubby braved it withour earplugs because i was supposed to stop snoring. Poor hubby had no sleep as i lustily snored keeping us both awake in the end. When we phoned Dr Schlebusch fobbed us off through his receptionist saying i should keep wearing it to see if i will adjust. My dentist hubby realised that would not resolve the issue and we insisted to return for an earlier appointment. When we did[ fourt time ] hubby asked if he could do the adjustments on the device itself which would be maybe helpful. Hubby adjusted the device in every possible way but I kept on snoring lustily indicating sleep apnea. Dentist Hubby then realised that this device dr Schlebusch made is not working and we phoned him and asked to discuss the matter with him as we wanted to return the useless device and get our money back. He refused to talk to us and after several calls and emails to his surgery the only direct response we got is that i have to come back and see him. By this time all the appointments and stress had me bedbound and i could not physically get out of bed. Our time in SA is coming to and end and after getting second and even an third opinion from the man who gave the course dr Tucker in the USA it confirmed that dr Schlebusch would not be able to resolve the issue by me coming to see him once. Dr Tucker apologised for Dr Schlebusch, offered to help us by email and offered my husband a free course in his methods thus giving us some hope There are no time for dr Schlebusch to try to make a new one and frankly we lost all confidence in him especially after his refusal to communicate with us directly. We pleaded with him by email just to share his plan of action to see if he knew something we and other dentists who advised us did not know but he refused. His behaviour was extremely disrespectful . He had no empathy with my situation being quite ill at this time and we came to the conclusion to our horror that we had the misfortune to encounter a money grabbing dentist who behaves immoral and unethical and do not care We are returning to the UK now where hubby will make me the dental device free but it was a very expensive and upsetting encounter which left me a lot sicker than i was. Shame on you dr Schlebusch for bringing the dental profession of which both my daughter and husband in disrepute. I lost all the money i paid him, more than six thousand rands and the whole ordeal made me very ill and bedbound</p>