Down in the mouth.
I went to the dentist today for my biannual cleaning. My old dental hygienist had apparently left the practice to go to graduate school. My new dental hygienist was a little younger, and in a growing trend for the service professionals in my life, apparently went to my high school, albeit many years after me. “Gosh, sometimes I wish I’d grown up in the 80’s.” Thanks, little girl.
In the list of the top ten things you don’t want to hear your dental hygienist say, I think number seven must be, “Now, don’t be alarmed.” After today, I can tell you that it pops up to number five if she says it while you hear metal squealing behind your head. Turns out my new dental hygienist was just sharpening some sort of medieval torture device with a whetstone. No kidding about the whetstone. Sayeth she, “This is so much harder when this tool is dull.”
I am of two minds about this.
One: “If it’s supposed to be sharp, then by all means, sharpen it. The last thing I want is the dental equivalent of a shave with a dull razor.”
Two: “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KEEP THAT ICE PICK OUT OF MY MOUTH.”
If my old dental hygienist was Floyd the barber, my new one is Sweeney Todd. I’ve never had a cleaning last so long, or have so many jabs. In my typical “bright side” fashion, I suppose it’s good that she was so thorough. In fact, she couldn’t have been more thorough unless she had taken my teeth out, individually sanded and polished them, then re-inserted them into my gums. I am not mentioning that possibility in front of her.
I usually go every six months. She wants to see me in three. I guess the lady down the street needs teeth for her meat pies. Brrrr.
My dentists/hygienists have managed to change twice in the past year or so, though I go to the same practice I have for a long, long time. Every time I find out they’ve changed folks around I always seem to put off going back in by another couple months — and this is exactly why. Ow. Sometimes I wonder if they’re using us to break their new tools in. No, wait… I always wonder that. That whetstone sounds darned scary, though, on top of it all. You’re sooo brave. :shivers:
My dentists/hygienists have managed to change twice in the past year or so, though I go to the same practice I have for a long, long time. Every time I find out they’ve changed folks around I always seem to put off going back in by another couple months — and this is exactly why. Ow. Sometimes I wonder if they’re using us to break their new tools in. No, wait… I always wonder that. That whetstone sounds darned scary, though, on top of it all. You’re sooo brave. :shivers:
Nah, she just needs more practice. 🙂
Nah, she just needs more practice. 🙂
::dies laughing:: Now I have the music from Sweeney Todd playing in my head. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that you made a meat pie refrence. ::hums delightedly::
::dies laughing:: Now I have the music from Sweeney Todd playing in my head. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that you made a meat pie refrence. ::hums delightedly::
Eegads. This is exactly why, when the receptionist asked whether I wanted the dentist or the hygenist to do my teeth cleaning I gave her this, “Are you nuts?” look and ennunciated very clearly my dentist’s name.
I’m so glad there is one old fashioned dentist left in my town that will actually do the not-so-fun aspects of dental work.
But then again… if you look a few posts back on my page you’ll see my thoughts on dentists in general 🙂
Eegads. This is exactly why, when the receptionist asked whether I wanted the dentist or the hygenist to do my teeth cleaning I gave her this, “Are you nuts?” look and ennunciated very clearly my dentist’s name.
I’m so glad there is one old fashioned dentist left in my town that will actually do the not-so-fun aspects of dental work.
But then again… if you look a few posts back on my page you’ll see my thoughts on dentists in general 🙂