at the dentists office

[Flipperk]

I'm at the dentists office right now. I've got my crucifix and some holy water.















God help me

God can't help you now....

[CAP1]

Usually those 3D imaging places are placed in a wealthy area, as the equipment itself is extremely expensive. The tasty purple molds are nice, cheap, and fun to watch patients squirm in disgust  

yea.......the one girl was laughing at me....then she gave me some mouthwash to clear out the taste.

[fbWldcat]

God can't help you now....

 

[Maverick]

Got a toothache right now and a dentist apointment in an hour. He's going to see if it's salvageable. I have my doubts and fear I will be leaving a tooth behind there.

Gads I hate going to the dentist. Don't get me wrong, they are good folks but I feel like I ought to have someone holding a gun on me forcing me to go in the office and sit in that darn machiaveilan torture device chair they use.........   

[Penguin]

God can't help you now....

For the dentist's is a place even angles fear to tread.

-Penguin

[Simaril]

For the dentist's is a place even angles fear to tread.

-Penguin

If they're dental assistants, do they have to be A-cute angles?

[Mano]

I imagine you guys at the dentist's office......acting just like Mr Bean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abJyp4bAi0I


 

[maddafinga]

Dentist lab assistant or tech?

Tech.  Specifically, ceramist.

[fbWldcat]

Tech.  Specifically, ceramist.

Nice 

[maddafinga]

i was watching one of those "how it works" shows...they showed how some now can use 3d imaging to do them. the one i go to still uses that tasty purple crap to take a mold, and sends them out.

Those imaging systems are not too bad, but the models that they later produce are something of a pain to work with.  They're great for dentists that don't take very good impressions, which is sadly, the majority of them.  The people that sell the digital impression equipment and software advertise it as being cheaper for the dentist, due to the cost of impression material etc., but in reality it's not.  The fit is better though for the guys who don't take good impressions. 

We use a 5 axis laser scanner in the lab on some cases, so we get the impression, or the file that contains the digital impression, we make a scan of the die, and then send that information to a milling center.  The milling center will send us back a milled coping that fits the die just about perfectly.  The technology is kind of neat in a lot of cases.  I just wish the models made from the digital impressions weren't so difficult to work with. 

[danny76]

IMHO dentists, (note lack of capitals) are just human beings that have failed the butchers exams

[fbWldcat]

IMHO dentists, (note lack of capitals) are just human beings that have failed the butchers exams

And also get more education than you can probably imagine. They go for a very long time. 

[CAP1]

while i hate going to the dentist....as mentioned, i'm pretty much afraid of them......but i respect the hell out of them. they have to deal with friggin EVERY type of person, and more than likely those people are rarely in anything other than a foul mood when they go in.

[danny76]

they certainly know their trade Sir and my argument is merely based on the pain they cause me. But veterinarians have a longer training session, and I have had the experience of a dentist allowing my cousin to bleed out after operating, because he had republican sympathies in Ireland, my cousin nearly died from liver and kidney damage, caused by swallowing blood, agter being deposited in a waiting room in a Belfast hospital for 14 hrs

[Babalonian]

so i'm sitting there, and the dentist is drilling, and prepping 2 teeth for crowns. i got lucky.....didn't need either of them root canaled.

 anyway, he's drilling away, his assistant has that vacuum tube in my mouth, and another assistant walks by. the one working with the dentist makes a comment to the one walking by........"you've got nice skin for your age".

 so now, the other assistant stops.....the one that made the comment realizes it wasn't the best thing to say....and the dentist is struggling to not laugh out loud while he's still drilling in my mouth.

sheesh!!!! i'm one of those big sissys when it comes to the dentist to begin with....friggin scared to death of them......and here this guys assistant does that.

 in hindsight, it's really funny......but it wasn't a little while ago.

Sissy, try having open wrist surgery to remove glass out of it for over an hour without any anethesia or pain killers sometime.  Priceless was the look on the doctor's and nurse's faces when they realized they had given me none after the procedure was finished. 

Nurse - "Want more pain killers for the pian?" 
Me - "I haven't had any yet, but I'd love some."
*dead silence and blank faces for 5 seconds by the three nurses and doc in the room*
Doc - "Give him a full dose of morphine."
*couple minutes pass as a nurse goes out to fetch the morphine and the rest of them quickly leave the room.  the nurse returns with it and checks my chart.*
Nurse - "Now you're sure you weigh 280 pounds?"
Me - "Last I checked, probabley a little more."
*huge grin emerges on the nurse's face as he draws the morphine into his syrynge.  As he is injecting it into the IV line he tells me this is the largest single dose of morphine he's ever administered, and for me to relax and enjoy... that I did*