So I am at the dentist this morning. How I hate the dentist. I guess this goes back to having all but one of my baby teeth pulled from their happy homes in my jaws by a permagrin dentist who's grin got bigger and bigger with each crack of my roots as she ruined my life with this legal act of child torture. If my son ever has to get his teeth pulled, I will not hesitate to drive him far far away from that dentist office to save him from the pains of my youth that still haunt me today.
Back to my morning. I have to get X-Rays. I usually like to avoid these for two reasons. Reason One: an X-Ray can tell the dentist if I have a cavity, which in turns leads to needles and drills INSIDE of my mouth. Reason Two: it simply prolongs my visit to my personal hell. I usually just tell them that I don't have insurance and can't afford to pay for the X-Rays... and I avoid them all together for reasons listed above. But not this morning. I decide to go ahead with it, since I had just rolled out of bed 7 minutes prior, and didn't really care what happened, as long as I could sit in that comfy chair and catch up on my sleep.
The dental assistant (what are these people called?) set up the X-Ray, she draped me with that heavy lead filled blanket which only added to my coziness in the money chair. With some awkward plastic thing jammed in my mouth, she was about to fire off the first X-Ray when another dental assistant (?!?) came in to my cube area. I hear a, "Watch out Mary!" as Mary jumps out of said cube area before the X-Ray machine fires. In those few seconds, I realize, what the FUTON is Mary jumping out of the way for? And what is this thing pointed at my brain doing to me and not Mary, who was not well out of the way by now?!
Needless to say, upon the quick review of my X-Rays my dentist said that I have great "teeth stock". That's what I'm talking about. So take a look yourself; that is my actual X-Ray from this morning, I guess they are all digital now, so I asked for them to send it my way...
Oh, I also got reprimanded for not flossing. Whatever.
greenroom says,
Yeah, i have been reprimanded so many times for not flossing that the last time they said i would have to have surgery if i didn't start to floss. Motivation enough. I have only missed one day in like a month and a half. Also, i thought you ate all healthy as a kid and no sugar and stuff. What's with all the cavities? Maybe you don't have quite the teeth stock this dentist says. Maybe all the good genes went to your tri's?
Posted @ April 20, 2005Red Canary says,
Great Blog Noah. I love the part about Mary. Mary Mary... why ya buggin?
rcp
Posted @ April 20, 2005