What The HELL Is Up With Dental Hygenists Talking To You During Torture?

[matcom]

i mean SHIT lady!

YOU are the one with the 8 inch SHARP metal pointy thingy just milimeters from the nerves in my gums.

I am the one with my gaping mouth stuck open, drool cascading down my chin who hasn't been allowed to SWALLOW for the last 5 minutes, whose TONGUE is getting a cramp from being forced back far enough to tough that punching bag thingy at the back of my throat and YOU.....

WANT TO ASK ME ABOUT MY TRAVEL PLANS TO FRIGGEN MEXICO??????

what the hell am i supposed to do? make ONE strange gurgeling sound if i am EXCITED or TWO gurgeling sounds if i am NOT?

:eyes:

[Maple]

1. Well it distracts you

trying to figure out how to answer her. :D

[GOPisEvil]

2. What's REALLY funny is they can understand what you're "saying".

To me it sounds like "AROUWAROUARRROWOAW", but to the hygienist it sounds like intelligeible English. There must be a class in hygienist school or something.

[shance]

3. YOU are funny Mat****

And THAT is SO TRUE.

[MrBenchley]

4. Robert Klein bit...

from the 1970s....the dentist waits until he's working on your mouth, then sez "Boy, that Nixon sure got a raw break, didn't he? Bzzzzzzzz..."

"Hear your mother's sleeping with the principal of PS 249... Bzzzzzz"

[Love Bug]

5. Heh. My orthodontist would ask me questions while tightening my braces

Stuff like "Did you know your father is behind in paying his bill?" *twist* *twist* *twist* on the wires.... Nice, huh?

[mitchum]

6. I've always been distracted by their breasts jammed against my cheek

[beanball]

9. Those breast

in the dental profession that is known as nipplecaine.

[mitchum]

14. LOL!!!

nice

[Cleita]

7. I insist, no I demand that the little Q-tip thing with a numbing

salve be rubbed on my gums. Once I have that, I let them chatter away. It's usually good juicy gossip anyway. I don't care if my mouth is frozen the rest of the day.

[Bertha Venation]

8. Maybe she used to be a hairdresser. eom

[TrogL]

10. Bring a laptop

Type your answers.

[TrogL]

11. At least you don't get opera quizzes

My former dentist was also an opera singer. During appointments he would play opera excerpts over the PA and have me try and guess where they were from.

[onebigbadwulf]

12. More importantly...

what the hell is the difference between a dental hygenist and a dentist? And why do my gums bleed so much?>?

[kskiska]

13. What I can't stand is when the dentist and his assistant

talk over you to each other about their weekend, as though you don't even exist. Another thing is when they discuss whatever your problem is in murmured tones – "Take a look at number 23…doesn't look good."

A dentist I had wanted me to look in a mirror to see the tooth he ground down to a stump for a cap. And how about those icky color picturesof your full set of teeth (suitable for framing) they give you to take home?

[Tinoire]

15. You're doing it all wrong Matcom! Nitrous Oxide dude!

Sheesh! Just had a deep cleaning today and it was sheer heaven! Had the assistant turn the dispenser all the way up and... deep breaths!

In deeply through the nose
Out through the mouth...

After she was done, she was kind enough to leave the Nitrous cranked up while I waited about 15 minutes for the Dentist to come chat.

Sheer bliss...

Get the nitrous dude- you'll look forward to your visits!

[ProudGerman]

17. Be careful with the nitrous

I was giving enough to make a horse stoned when I had my wisdom teeth pulled. (no dental insurance, so I opted not to be put to sleep, only novacaine and the giggling gas for me, so the assistant really poured it on for me) I was pretty out of it, but she claimed I complimented her on her breasts profusely the few times they got really close to my face. She even said she gave me her phone number when I asked for it. I should have proposed before the dentist came in.

When I say I was given a lot, I mean a ton. How often do people come out of the office after having 4 impacted wisdom teeth pulled, cut, and ground to dust smiling from ear to ear? If I could have moved my mouth, I'd have giggled my ass off. I think they had to change tanks mid operation, heh.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. You took the words right from my mouth.

This past Monday, I had two fillings replaced and the two dental assts. talked and asked me questions the whole time. I thought, what's up with that?