Dentist Desquamation

January 3rd, 2009 3:09 by ogrim

I’ve had a great start on the new year. I visited the dentist today, and fixed three holes and pulled one wisdom tooth (have pulled the two lower ones earlier). From this point on it is likely I don’t have to do much with my teeth, at least hopefully.

Many people have a stressed relationship with dentists. Luckily, I don’t. My teeth have been exposed for more dental treatment than most people have to endure. I don’t think it is usefull to go into very specific details, but let’s just say it involves cutting both rows of teeth from the jaw and cranium, screws and jaw wiring.

Despite my experiences with extensive dental treatment, I still have a pretty relaxed relationship with dentists. However, the conversation they had today, while working on my teeth, seemed rather strange. New tools, better equipment, budgets, different types of fillings where all topics they openly discussed. I thought for myself I would probably cry from listening in to this conversation, if I had some sort of phobia related to dentists and strangers in my mouth. I don’t think many patients enjoy hearing a discussion on the finer points of dental scrapers and other tools, while they are working the very tools they are discussing inside ones mouth.

Anyhow, I might have been slightly hazy from the anaesthetization while suffering from a serious lack of coffee. The dentists where not as vicious as they look on the picture I painted, they where actually sincerely sweet, and I could give them a hug.