Had another extensive dentist session this morning. It used to be they needed to plug up cavities and crown my teeth, now they need to fix up the fillings/crowns already there. I don’t understand it: I brush and floss three times a day, but it never ends! Things I know:
- My dentist does not have Highlights for Children in the waiting room. Instead, they have a small cache of cooking magazines. Huh?
- Some time in the past decade, the dental care industry stopped using the mini toilet bowls that you could spit in. I miss mini toilet bowl spitting.
- Unfortunately they still haven’t changed the disgusting taste and texture of tooth polishing grit. Mmm, fake cherry grit!
- My dentist’s chairs used to have lights with a tiny distorted mirror on them, so you could stare at a weird reflection of your own mouth while they worked on you. Now they have a logo where the mirror used to be, so now I definitely know that the lights were made by a company called Belmont in all caps. BELMONT. Beats staring at a poster of a unicorn on the ceiling, which is what my childhood dental office had.
- I only choked once this morning; although the multitudes of instruments/waterers/suckers/fingers simultaneously in my mouth gave me a few claustrophobic moments.
Comments
No Highlights for Children? You might want to make sure this "dentist" of yours is fully accredited.
Posted by: Vince | December 5, 2006 12:17 PM