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Had a check-up and clean last night and I forget how traumatising the whole experience is. I always have this older woman who I swear takes pleasure from watching others in pain. It is constant agony feeling the scraping and every time she attacks too hard with her instrument and makes me squirm it is followed by "this is what happens when you don't floss." No this wouldn't happen if you stuck to cleaning my teeth instead of stabbing my gums!

And to top it all off the way she was leaning over me meant that she had one of her **** constantly rested on my forehead. Now this wouldn't bother me if it was Lucy Pinder but this woman was, to say it gently, obese so it felt like a bag of sand was crushing my skull.

Oh well at least I have 6 months to recover before I go through this all over again...

Are all dentists this bad?
 
My dentist is awesome. Have had some shockers in the past but the one i have now is great. Good bloke, likes a chat and a laugh. Talks to you like a real person and explains things clearly. And rarely hurts you. I have no problems going in anymore.
 
I really, really like it. I like the sterility and the chemical smell. And I think sitting in that room is relaxing. When they get out the wire brush (or whatevs), I really like the feeling of cleanliness. I dunno. I just never understood the hatred toward them.

I've never had a filling, though, so maybe that's why I like them.
 
Had braces way back as a young teenager, so just a standard check-up now is a walk in the park. It makes it a hell of a lot easier too that my dentist is a Lime, 1 on the binary or 93/100. I would brush my teeth with a pine cone if she told me it was the right thing to do.
 

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It's been 8 years since I've been to a dentist....

The last time I went was right around my 21st birthday. I had gum growing over the top of my back teeth (molers?) and it was starting to hurt when chewing. I had a friend I went to school with who was a receptionist at a dentist, so she booked me in. I was still covered by my parent's extras health insurance until my 21st birthday, and I managed to have the initial appointment about 2 weeks before said birthday.

Dentist had a look and he was all "yep I'll need to book you in again for a procedure in a month or so" - I told him "well, I'll be 21 by then and won't be covered by any insurance"... then the champion of the dentist said "well, let's just say that we did the procedure today!" and invoiced everything so that I was covered and then went back in a months time to get the actual procedure done!

He said there were other things he wanted to catch up on as my teeth weren't in super health (whose are?) but I haven't been back since, because let's face it, I can't afford that -
 
Silent Alarm said:
I really, really like it. I like the sterility and the chemical smell. And I think sitting in that room is relaxing. When they get out the wire brush (or whatevs), I really like the feeling of cleanliness. I dunno. I just never understood the hatred toward them.

I've never had a filling, though, so maybe that's why I like them.
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That's so weird.

I hate strangers sticking their fingers in my mouth and scraping my teeth
 
I like going to the dentist. Doesn't hurt at all, and your mouth feels good afterwards.

Plus my dentist is pretty much the opposite of the OP in terms of looks :thumbsu:.
 
I went a couple months back for the first time in about 5 years and forgot how much I enjoyed the clean and scaling. I dunno why, but I get some sick satisfaction out of it. Had to get a filling...that part was traumatic. Big **** off needle going into your mouth, drill, took forever to get my chomp back to normal. bleh.
 
I had braces put on a couple of months ago and if I'm being honest the pain is nowhere near as bad as I've been told it would be. There's some aching after they're tightened but it's not too painful at all. The separators they put in before the braces on the other hand... They hurt like a bitch.
 
Atheist said:
I had braces put on a couple of months ago and if I'm being honest the pain is nowhere near as bad as I've been told it would be. There's some aching after they're tightened but it's not too painful at all. The separators they put in before the braces on the other hand... They hurt like a bitch.
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Tough bastard :P

Got mine off a couple of weeks ago. I was poppin' the panadol like a mad man for the first couple of times they were tightened.

I have a kick ass dentist so no problems there. Like a few others have said I actually look forward to the scale and polish. Yet to have a filling.
 
JD11 said:
Why do people go to the dentist when nothing's wrong?

I haven't been for 8 years...
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Just for check ups. Think of it as maintenance :p.

I go every 6 months.
 

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Harvey Leadpipe said:
Had braces way back as a young teenager, so just a standard check-up now is a walk in the park. It makes it a hell of a lot easier too that my dentist is a Lime, 1 on the binary or 93/100. I would brush my teeth with a pine cone if she told me it was the right thing to do.
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This man speaks the truth.

Orthodontists are way worse with inflicting pain, agony and torture. :(

And my own personal experiences werent even that bad- working with kids, I've heard some horrific stories.
 
On a side note, how the hell do you decide to be a dentist? When does that light come on your head and you decide you want to spend the rest of your life sticking your hand in people's gobs?

Shell said:
This man speaks the truth.

Orthodontists are way worse with inflicting pain, agony and torture. :(

And my own personal experiences werent even that bad- working with kids, I've heard some horrific stories.
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Braces in the 80's was a pretty traumatic experience.
 
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:D:thumbsu:
 
Gough said:
On a side note, how the hell do you decide to be a dentist? When does that light come on your head and you decide you want to spend the rest of your life sticking your hand in people's gobs?
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I thought the general consensus on that is they failed medical school. ;)
 

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I had terrible teeth growing up and hence spent a fair amount of time in the dentist/orthodontists chair. Had numerous baby teeth pulled out and had four adult teeth pulled out before I got my braces on due to crowding. That beautiful cracking sound when the dentist wrenches the tooth out is a sound to behold.

My most memorable moment was when I had a tooth pulled by my dentist when the clinic was closed. I can't remember exactly why but my mum and I met the dentist at the clinic, he opened it up, turned the lights on and pulled the tooth out in super quick time. I think the main thing that made it weird was that there was no assistant so my mum had to help out.

An odd orthodontist fact: My orthodontist has terrible teeth! What is up with that?
 
SugarShane said:
My dentist is awesome. Have had some shockers in the past but the one i have now is great. Good bloke, likes a chat and a laugh. Talks to you like a real person and explains things clearly. And rarely hurts you. I have no problems going in anymore.
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Probably just lucky but I've always found that they generally seem to be very friendly people.
 
Caesar said:
My uncle, an orthodontist, maintains that dentists are medicos with too much financial sense to be doctors.
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It's true i have had to pay $150 for some dentists

Oh & who has had that big light in there eyes it is so bright
 

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