Comments | funranium: Are All Dental Hygienists Like This?

funranium

Are All Dental Hygienists Like This?

Aug 28, 2008 18:27

I've had my fair share over the years and each and every one of them has pulled the scolding day-care-center-mom voice during a cleaning with a remark like "tsk, tsk...we haven't been flossing, have we?" Is this something they are taught in dental school or is dental hygienist a position that attracts people like this?

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slothphil August 29 2008, 02:31:23 UTC

I'd suggest that she was perhaps viewing that as light-hearted banter, not condescension. However, I'm used to nice, friendly dentists. "That anaesthetic's not strong enough? For you we have the horse-killer!"

funranium August 29 2008, 04:22:51 UTC

Dentists...never had a problem, except for that tooth cracking drunken Navy psycho at McMurdo.

It dental hygienists and I that don't get along. If it were just one, I might take it as banter, but when it's every one I've ever had I start to think conspiracy.

Eh, more than anything else she caught me with something rankling on a day I wasn't taking any shit.

slothphil August 29 2008, 04:25:01 UTC

We don't tend to have dental hygenists as a separate occupation -- at least, I've never encountered one.

pure_doxyk August 29 2008, 03:52:20 UTC

You sir have scored a minor victory for condecended-upon dental customers everywhere. Viva la assholes!

funranium August 29 2008, 04:10:53 UTC

I restrained myself. I was tempted to refer to her function within the dentist's office as "tooth detailing".

Some long weeks, little sleep, 100 degree temperatures, and 25 years of dental hygienists clucking their tongues at me caught her full in the face.

theliznach August 29 2008, 04:41:13 UTC

Well my hygienist is pretty awesome, she just shakes her head and thrusts more floss at me to take home. I prefer her to the dentists, especially Monteith, who the one and only time he saw me said i needed braces, whatev.

funranium August 29 2008, 04:44:05 UTC

Yes, well, I don't get to play with Dr. Jono and posse anymore. More's the pity.

ETA Lunchtime Monday

spurious_logic August 29 2008, 17:40:52 UTC

I've had my share of them as well. There was one in Sacramento that started with the baby talk while I was getting a root canal done and couldn't say anything. Afterwards she said something like, "Awwww, now that didn't hurt too much did it?" I said, "Your anesthesia wore off 10 minutes ago so the deepest part of the drilling was done au natural. Sorry about your chair" which was now bent at the armrests.

Loved that dentist, but couldn't stand the assistant.