Back to Christchurch????

Bit of a nightmare really, a bit ago my top filling came out, think it was around the time of the Whitsundays, well chewing on a sweet the other day half of another filling came out at the bottom! The top one was already a little painful and now the bottom was also a little delicate. We decided that as we were more or less passing through Christchurch to get to our next place we would stop off at a dentist!
Oh god, maybe we should of just carried on....the dentist took one look and basically told us we would have to stay in Christchurch over night and that i had an abcess at the top and the bottom tooth needed reconstruction?? He said i could have the tooth taken out (top one) or i could have a root filling?? He told us that it would only cost $968.00..oh right is that all!!!!!!!! Bang goes the budget!!!
Anyhow it needed doing, so we we went away checked back into the hostel we stayed in last week and then went back to the dentist at 1700, he sorted the bottom and sortd the top, apparently it had 4 canals and it was a tricky little tooth..he has put a temp filling in it and it basically just needs a proper filling and a crown..he said the temporary filling may not last that long and therefore we need to go back on the 15th November, not good it sort of mucks our plans up a bit, but hey ho at least i still have both my teeth!!!!