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supersizeme
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I hadn't been in two years due to being unemployed and then starting a contract with no health insurance(finally got some at the beginning of the year). Anyways, today I was introduced to an evil new tool that has been spawned in the last two years of dental technological advancements.
My dentist began with the textbook scraping of my teeth with a little mirror(I'm pretty sure he was just checking out his own teeth and winking at himself the whole time with it) and Tiny Elvis' hook-arm prosthetic. Then when he got to some areas that apparently were going to be a pain to scrape, he said he was going to bust out with the "<alskdjfa;lskjkillyou>." I have no idea what he called it, but it apparently "blasts away tartar buildup" and I immediately dug into the armrests and prepared to be made uncomfortable. From what I could tell, it was a combination of something spinning at a very high RPM along with high pressure water. Fortunately it was accompanied by a soothing, piercingly high-pitched drilling sound. He mostly aimed it in between the teeth, but when he aimed it at the base of a tooth, it was 1-2 seconds of eternal torture and punishment. I literally winced and was contemplating saying, "k...stop already." If you've ever had a tooth that's really sensitive to cold things, imagine having an entire mouth full of exact clones of that tooth and then being forced to eat a case of dry-ice popsicles.
I managed to survive that and the subsequent polishing and X-rays, and left the dentist's office with no cavities and a big yellow balloon for being such a trooper.
My dentist began with the textbook scraping of my teeth with a little mirror(I'm pretty sure he was just checking out his own teeth and winking at himself the whole time with it) and Tiny Elvis' hook-arm prosthetic. Then when he got to some areas that apparently were going to be a pain to scrape, he said he was going to bust out with the "<alskdjfa;lskjkillyou>." I have no idea what he called it, but it apparently "blasts away tartar buildup" and I immediately dug into the armrests and prepared to be made uncomfortable. From what I could tell, it was a combination of something spinning at a very high RPM along with high pressure water. Fortunately it was accompanied by a soothing, piercingly high-pitched drilling sound. He mostly aimed it in between the teeth, but when he aimed it at the base of a tooth, it was 1-2 seconds of eternal torture and punishment. I literally winced and was contemplating saying, "k...stop already." If you've ever had a tooth that's really sensitive to cold things, imagine having an entire mouth full of exact clones of that tooth and then being forced to eat a case of dry-ice popsicles.
I managed to survive that and the subsequent polishing and X-rays, and left the dentist's office with no cavities and a big yellow balloon for being such a trooper.
