31st January 2000
Hi all,
Well it is one of my weeks off... and I'm glad to announce that filling in for me this week is Lucy Partridge.
It isn't one for the faint-hearted!!! Take it away Lucy...
Why is it that when you go to the dentist they have an incredible knack for asking you questions when they have their hands and all their dentist tools in your mouth???
Last week I went to the dental school (where they train the student dentists) to get my filling fixed because it fell out. I thought it would just be a quick fix then I get to go home. But no!!! After 3 hours I emerged from the oral surgery department minus a tooth and a stretched jaw. It was decided the tooth had to come out, which was fair enough, but the dentist boy must have forgotten his contact lenses because he kept missing my tooth and going for my gums! But that's Ok!!!
What I didn't understand was why he kept asking me silly questions when he had a huge massive enormous pair of pliers wrapped around my back tooth. Things like 'did you watch Neighbours yesterday?' weren't really questions I wanted to think about! And when he asked me if I was in pain he made sure I couldn't answer him because he had his fingers in my mouth trying to fish out the bit of tooth that he had just broken! But that's OK!!!
And when the dentist told him to pull the tooth, why did he try to push it so hard my head almost fell off? But that's OK, too!!! (When he told me he had been out drinking the night before I began to realise why I NEVER go to the dentist)
And why do the injections never last very long? All that pain to get them, and they only give about 2 hours of fuzziness. (And don't ever try drinking from a cup when you have half a numb/frozen mouth!)
Bizarre...but the moral of the story is always ask for a pen and paper before you even contemplate opening your mouth!!!!
Have a great week and remember to brush your teeth!!!
Lucy <><
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