I had a filling this morning. My usual dentist was not available so today I had a new guy. It was the weirdest dental experience ever.
He was deeply enthused about dentistry, and even more enthused (I sensed) about his own dentistry skills. I don't think I've ever met anyone so excitedly self-assured. He kept stopping to admire his handiwork. "Sweet!" he'd say. "Awesomeness!!"
Sometimes he'd reflect his enthusiasm onto me. "I'm so appreciative of your cooperation!" he told me, several times. Why? I wondered, What am I doing that's so special? What happens with your other patients? Do they thrash about? Do they refuse to open their mouths?
He did keep me informed about what he was up to, every awesome step of the way, which was good. My regular dentist, who has done extensive work on me over the years, is more likely to chat about her latest trip to the Bahamas (well, it's nice to know where your money's going, isn't it?).
Day in day out such a level of self-confidence would be exhausting (for a British person not auditioning for The Apprentice, at least) to be around, but for a twenty minute experience an excited dentist was quite diverting and even enjoyable - it's the first time I've been uncomfortable in a dentist's chair from trying not to laugh.
Going to the dentists nowadays seems to be quite a different experience.My lady is Indian and the nurse is Polish The hygienist is a Yorkshire girl so she and I speak with the same accent and we were both trained by the RAF at one time but she outranked me Its all quite jolly until its time to extract the money from me and that can be quite painful becoming moreso as my teeth become less so Still Im lucky to have teeth at my age .
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