I love my dentist, but since year three of going there, I swear I have never had the same hygienist twice. And they only have two rooms - and one of them is where they do the 'work'.
The one I'm in - usually - is the cleaning room. So really, I only have access to one hygienist - it's just that they're constantly changing.
Dr. Dorothy seems like she'd be a nice boss, but maybe the profession is transient.
There seems to be no continuity in how they work. Some still scrape with tools that the cro-magnon men forged. They leave your gums hurting for hours. Some use the ultrasonic scraper - it's like a water pic, and while it shouldn't hurt, well, sometimes it hits a nerve in a completely different way than the scraper-thingy.
Either way - they never ask which way I want. They just do it. I just let them.
Yesterday it was the scrape method. Which means blood.
I don't give a fuck how good your oral hygiene might be, these bitches will make you bleed.
And every.fucking.time: do you floss?
Yes, you wench. At least once a day - every day!
But the below video was on the Simpsons.
Remember the days when you never missed an episode of that show? Now I've missed complete seasons. But some station has done a marathon of all 20-something seasons of them back to back. I accidentally caught (part of) one I have never seen - it was a PSA for dental hygiene: Menace Tooth Society - featuring Ludicrest.
This is exactly what I assume goes on in the microscopic world of dental hygiene.
Baby Got Back-teria.
I think that made it for me.
Song by: Cock Robin
Oh joy.....I have my cleaning scheduled for this evening. Not sure how it will go as I've not been to the dentist in over 8 years, but at least when the doctor did the prelim check last week all she indicated needs to be done is a replacement of 3 fillings which are almost 30 years old, so I guess that's good news.
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Every time I go to the dentist I think of Laurence Olivier in The Marathon Man. I have this compulsion to say "its safe".
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My hygienists use the pressure washer method and I like that one!
ReplyDeleteLiving in a smalltown, hence a smalltown dentist, I always have the same hygienist!
I would much rather get a tooth drilled or extracted than cleaned! At least then they numb you up! I always find myself humming Be A Dentist, from Little Shop of Horrors every time I go. My answer to how often do I floss: every time I come here!
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I just had my choppers cleaned as well. I too never seem to have the same hygienist twice. I dislike going to the dentist.
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