I am 30 years old, and I think I may have just had fun at the dentist? One of my major concerns about going to my new dentist yesterday was that the appointment was at the same time as a huge game for my favorite soccer team. No big deal: I watched it live on the overhead flat screen TV while they worked on my teeth. In my previous dentist's office, I distincly remember starting at a sun-faded poster graphically depicting the stages of gum disease semi-anually for about 25 years. I'll take the TVs. The doctor and staff were friendly and professional and even a lit bit funny. When I had questions, they spun me around and showed me actual picutures of my own teeth on a monitor. I've always been skeptical of mechanics and dentists because they can tell me virtually anything needs to be fixed and I have no way of verifying the problem for myself. So this was very demystifying. It had been five years since I'd been to the dentist - five; they could have told me I needed dentures and it would've been hard for me to argue. Instead, they showed me on the monitor the one cavity I did incur during that time, and I'm looking forwrad to returning to have it taken care of.
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