1. There is always an aquarium. To calm you. Puh! All those fish swimming around with their eyes bulging out of their heads…they just look like they are silently screaming……
PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE!
2. Everyone in the office. Yes, everyone. Their teeth are too white. They need to join the rest of of the world and down a cup of coffee or Red wine once in a while. It’s unnatural, unholy. Not fair.
3. It freaks me out when you sit in that uncomfortable chair and 2 sets of eyes peek over at you from behind mint green and white masks. Kind of reminds me of a horror flick. I could never pick these dental hygienists out in a line up! Do they even have faces behind those masks? I’ve never seen them!
4. Tools are in my mouth. One is sucking spit the other is pick pick picking. Gross. Then the dentist is asking me about my kids, plans for the summer, seen any good movies lately? Huh? Excuse me while I drool a little and try to figure out what and how I am supposed to talk??
5. It smells. Nuff said.
I floss and I brush, but I do not enjoy the dentist.
I am an adult, kinda, and you can not make me go. So there.
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PS…if you know a good hypnotist who can get their freak on and get me over this ridiculous childhood fear…please send me their e-mail. Time to get over myself already.
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I have another reason… your ex husband IS one! 😉 ha ha…
I hate the music they play too. And how they get that condoning tone when they need to tell yo uabout work they have to do.
I wouldn’t say I enjoy the dentist, but it is one way I’ll pay to pamper myself. We don’t have dental insurance and I really view that $80 as “me time”. I’m possibly just a very sad woman.
My dentist has no aquarium, but a big picture window across from the chairs with feeders that attract lots of birds and squirrels. Now, that’s soothing. I like him enough to keep going there even though he isn’t covered by my dental plan.
Anytime I get reluctant, I imagine how awful it would be to have dentures. That straightens me right up.
It’s too bad we hate someone who tries to help keep us healthy but I feel the same way as you!
My reasons are all that you mentioned plus the fact they ask if you want to watch TV. After deciding that it would be a good distraction to watch TV, they swoop in with their loud drills and both faces in the way of your only escape!
Have a good day!
Never have figured out why they ask you questions while in the middle of a cleaning…duh!
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and? They are odd. The whole lot of them. Mostly because I dislike them too. Mine? Made me stop crying when I turned 22. Said I was too old to cry when he cleaned my teeth.
So annoying how they always talk to you like that when you have those TOOLs in your mouth! I trust them less than I trust lawyers.
How funny – I just went to the dentist today for my annual cleaning and checkup, ha ha!
I quite like getting my teeth scraped… and I really, really am terrified of losing teeth so it’s the price to pay, I guess. Hmmm.
You don’t need a hypnotist, just have a few stiff drinks before your next appointment and make it a party! Woo! 😀
I hate the dentist! I’m not afraid of the shots and the drilling…it’s the waiting in anticipation that kills me!!
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I literally just got home from a dentist visit, and I completely concur.
I hate going to the dentist sooo much, too! And why, WHY, why do they insist on making small talk with us, when we have all this shit in our mouths? We can’t talk, and when we try to talk, we just drool and sound very… silly, to say the least! SOOO ANNOYING, and gross, and painful. Yuck!
Hmmm, I wish I could send you some of my dentist vibes because I have never disliked going — and as a young girl I had to get fillings all the stinking time! I have no idea how I escaped the fear.
I do have a perfectly reasonable fear of the self checkouts at BJs though…
I always think about the eyebrows of the hygienists, and how they must be so meticulous to not get a uni-brow. I mean, it’s right there! You’re looking right at ’em!
As a dental hygienist myself…I always love these posts! Mainly because it’s all so true!
And while I cant speak for all of them..I most definitly have a face hiding behind my mask. Haha!