Oreo's before a dental cleaning

[BeeMused]

Teehee, just yesterday I heard my dentist rip into a fellow patient. The walls are apparantly very thin. The patient was in for an extraction and hadn't cleaned his teeth. This is a bad idea, after all the extracted tooth leaves an open wound, which can get badly infected by a less than clean mouth during extraction and right afterwards.
It sounded like she dragged him to the washroom with a toothbrush and some paste... "Now clean your teeth!!!!"

[Andara Bledin]

I can't even imagine going to the dentist without brushing and rinsing thoroughly before leaving the house and being extra vigilant several days prior. Heck, I wouldn't even go to get my hair cut if hair wasn't clean.

^-.-^

[Flood]

My dad would always joke about doing that (and I, in following his footsteps, do too).

But I wouldn't dream of ever actually going through with it. I don't want to spend any more time in the dentist's than absolutely necessary. Ashamed to say the only time I ever floss is the night before and every day for the next week or so after a visit.

[Pagan]

But cleanliness is a courtesy, especially if someone is going to be handling bits of you.

That just sounds so dirty!

[Andara Bledin]

That just sounds so dirty!

No, no, no... The idea is for good clean fun.

^-.-^

[Ironclad Alibi]

Most dentists I've been to in the last mumble mumble years have given out toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Huh, what wuzzat? Come again? How many years?

A few years less than I've been going to the dentist.

Back in the day, long before I was given free toothpaste, toothbrush and floss, at the end of my visit, the dentist would give us kids a coupon for a free ice cream cone at the nearby corner drugstore.

[Pagan]

No, no, no... The idea is for good clean fun.

^-.-^

You've been around enough to know that's never going to happen on here!

[dalesys]

No, no, no... The idea is for good clean fun.

You can only have any two of those three...

[Seshat]

Not if you have fun in a bubble bath.

[emax4]

Back in the day, long before I was given free toothpaste, toothbrush and floss, at the end of my visit, the dentist would give us kids a coupon for a free ice cream cone at the nearby corner drugstore.

Makes for repeat business, but I hope his chairside manner was polite enough that he or she expected the patients to come back.

[Kogarashi]

Back in the day, long before I was given free toothpaste, toothbrush and floss, at the end of my visit, the dentist would give us kids a coupon for a free ice cream cone at the nearby corner drugstore.

My MIL likes buying lots of candy at after-holiday sales to stock up the candy drawer in her house. Once when buying a bunch after Halloween, the cashier quipped, "Your dentist must really like you."
MIL replied, "He sure does!"

For the record, my FIL is a dentist.

[blas]

My last two teeth cleanings, I went to the dentist right as they opened, which was just an hour after my shift. At that time, I was working 8 hour shifts, so I didn't take my tote bag with me that had my toothbrush and facial wipes in it (sometimes I hate leaving it in the car all night at work when it's cold, though). Now I do because I work 12 hour shifts, and it's horrid for me to go that long without brushing. I like to brush as soon as I get to my parents' after work before I go home.

They didn't seem to mind that I hadn't brushed. Of course, I apologized beforehand that I'd been at work all night.

I never have clean hair when I go to the salon to get it colored. Not that it's dreadlocks with birds living in it, but it's better to have unwashed hair when you're getting color, because then your hair follicles are open and more willing to accept color, versus if you just washed and the follicles are closed. If I'm just getting a trim, I won't have dirty hair, though.

[telecom_goddess]

I never have clean hair when I go to the salon to get it colored. Not that it's dreadlocks with birds living in it, but it's better to have unwashed hair when you're getting color, because then your hair follicles are open and more willing to accept color, versus if you just washed and the follicles are closed. If I'm just getting a trim, I won't have dirty hair, though.

LOL I could never imagine you having dreadlocks with birds living in it

Years ago I knew a girl who deliberately let her hair be unwashed before cutting it cause they always washed it first anyway.

As for teeth cleaning I always make sure I brush mine before going in it's courtesy!!!

[Seshat]

If a salon is going to wash my hair anyway and it's still basically clean, I'll not bother cleaning it myself.
If I've been sweating in it, and/or it's become dusty, dirty, or generally manky, then yes of course I'll clean it.

My hair and skin tend to be on the 'dry' side of normal, however, so it takes two or three days after a wash for it to accumulate enough sebum (skin/hair oil) to feel silky under the fingers.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Makes for repeat business, but I hope his chairside manner was polite enough that he or she expected the patients to come back.

Could you expect anything less from a dentist named Dr. Lamb?