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In reply to the discussion: Would you keep a dental appointment during this time? [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)Mine is similar. They hired a new hygienist a few years ago - I happened to be her first patient.
I noticed at the time that she was constantly shoving her classes back up on her face, then putting her hands in my mouth, had foiled one handle on the light - then grabbed the other, and a handful of other things that are precisely how diseass get transmitted in dental offices. (And since she was wearing the same glasss all day, she transferred my germs to her glasses, and likely to the next patient. Thank goodness I was her first patient of the day.
I came back later in the day to drop off payment, and they came out to ask me about my experience wtih her. Apparently they had concerns (but weren't in the office watching over her shoulder). I was able to give them precise details about the dozen or so times she had violated disease prevention protocols.
Her first day was her last. So - yes, onone day they were really bad - BUT - they were alert enough to be concerned, and to ask someone with first-hand knowledge about it, and to act on the information they were given.