anti-dentite

lincoln and i tried out a new dental office today. and in another six months we will probably be looking for another new dental office to try.

we were due for our cleanings back in august but missed them due to our big move. and our last dentist was out of network and in mesa. i had hoped to find one nearby our house and covered through insurance.

so we tried out this one today. it was all fancy-schmancy. a completely paperless office (so they say, i swear i saw some). we filled out our medical history online, we signed a fancy doodad, x-rays were on the computer, and they took digital pictures of our teeth.

i have always been afraid of feet due to the ugliness of them, but now i think i am even more afraid of teeth. and mine are fairly clean, i brush often. but i have seven "white" fillings and two crowns. plus, i am a horrible flosser (meaning i don't do it, period). i bet lincoln's were even more grosser because he never brushes and used to drink tons of soda and has those wild silver fillings. he does have pretty gapped teeth so i bet the build up wasn't so bad...

moving on before i make myself sick thinking about it.

it is my personal opinion that the dental industry can be shady. i have met a few shady dentists in my day and have heard of several more through various intra-office horror stories. this dentist fell into the shady side of the practice. he was real pushy about doing all this costly work, which i despise. i felt that he cared more about $ and his high tech gadgetry and forgot what was important: good and honest dentristry.

and lincoln's appointment took almost 1.5 hours. madness. and the dentist is one of those dentists that ask you questions the whole time they have like three tools in your mouth. then he teased me for not being able to answer. the nerve.

there was a few pluses of the experience. i was told i am the best daughter ever. they had a faboulous selection of trashy gossips mags (which i am horribly addicted to). and they had this new high tech thingy that they used to remove plaque instead of scraping and flossing (i hate flossing on my own, but i loathe someone else doing it for me).

i guess we will try again in six months. unless lincoln's teeth all fall out before then, which the dentist seemed to think they would.