Ugh, dentists are evil. Well, ordinary check-up-y ones seem okay, but the ones who want to do specialist work always seem to be sadists, like Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors. (I remember when I had to get braces - got diagnosed as having an 'emergency' case: always good for the self-esteem! - which meant I got rushed through the NHS list of only having to wait three years. I think after one, we went private, but still, after operations - for which I still have the string to sew up my gum visible now, five years later: so glad we paid extra money for such a great service! - and injections for tooth removals and plates and deciding half the teeth weren't were bothering with being straightened anyway, since it was too much like actual work or something, I ended up with braces for about two years, with poking out wires into my cheek, which made it bleed. All of this was apparently my fault because I only brushed my teeth once a day instead of twice, according to The Orthodontist. >:(
And yeah, it's always 'X dentist only works Y day'. Don't kill yourself with overwork or anything. Christ, they must make a mint.
I was yelling and scared the dog.
Aw, I didn't know you had a dog! I love them, they're just like kids. A friend of ours had one, and they said it was really sad and pathetic, how if they ever got in a crabby mood and yelled at it, it would then creep up around it's ankles and try and 'apologise' for whatever it assumed it had done, just like kids that have nasty parents.
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Date: 2005-09-13 06:03 pm (UTC)(I remember when I had to get braces - got diagnosed as having an 'emergency' case: always good for the self-esteem! - which meant I got rushed through the NHS list of only having to wait three years.
I think after one, we went private, but still, after operations - for which I still have the string to sew up my gum visible now, five years later: so glad we paid extra money for such a great service! - and injections for tooth removals and plates and deciding half the teeth weren't were bothering with being straightened anyway, since it was too much like actual work or something, I ended up with braces for about two years, with poking out wires into my cheek, which made it bleed.
All of this was apparently my fault because I only brushed my teeth once a day instead of twice, according to The Orthodontist. >:(
And yeah, it's always 'X dentist only works Y day'. Don't kill yourself with overwork or anything. Christ, they must make a mint.
I was yelling and scared the dog.
Aw, I didn't know you had a dog!
I love them, they're just like kids. A friend of ours had one, and they said it was really sad and pathetic, how if they ever got in a crabby mood and yelled at it, it would then creep up around it's ankles and try and 'apologise' for whatever it assumed it had done, just like kids that have nasty parents.