I don’t understand why anyone would choose to become a dentist. I have no desire to spend all day in someone else’s mouth. Facing the risk of having my fingers bitten by someone I don’t know doesn’t thrill me.
To be honest I don’t understand the attraction in many jobs, just as most people would never see themselves working in any of the jobs I’ve worked over the years. Thankfully we’re all wired differently and thankfully some people are wired to become dentists. I don’t want to be one but I’m glad that some people do.
This is all to say that I’m due to visit the dentist tomorrow. Not really a cause for celebration but rather a case of necessity. I don’t dislike dentists but put a visit to a tooth tweaker up against most other pursuits and I’d go with the latter.
Today I had to prepare for my dentist visit by a trip to a radiological clinic. I needed an X-Ray of my mouth for the dentist.
Everyone was pleasant enough but it was a little odd. I had to stand in front of a machine that looked like a robot from a B grade movie. Then I had to get closer, then closer again, then bite down on a small piece of plastic. At that point I had to stand even closer.
Then a set of calipers was clamped onto my head.
Next was the instruction to smile … while still clamping tightly onto the machine with my teeth and standing oddly close to the large apparatus. Then, to avoid the moving parts during the X-Ray, I had to drop my shoulders.
Finally the ultimate request. While doing all this …. RELAX.
Helpful, cheerful, pleasant, efficient and many other words would describe the staff at the clinic today. They just seem to have a very different concept of relaxing to me.
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