Monday, April 02, 2007
So, I went to the dentist today. Hey, this is what I do on vacation.
I don't usually mind visiting the dentist. There's never anything wrong with my teeth, the staff at my dentist's office are all super nice, and there's nothing much nicer than freshly dentist-cleaned teeth.
Today, however, it was all different.
Today, the dentist told me I had three cavities that needed filling.
I have never had cavities before. I don't even know what to say. I feel like my teeth have failed me somehow.
I need an explanation.
These are the major things that have changed in my life since I last saw the dentist, a time when I was still - as far as I know - cavity-free:
1) I quit smoking.
2) I started using an electric toothbrush.
3) I moved to Sudbury.
I don't think it was the quitting smoking. I did that a while back, for a few years, and no cavities.
It can't be the toothbrush; my dental hygienist told me she has the same one, and she has no cavities.
There's only one logical conclusion:
DAMN YOU, SUDBURY! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
I don't usually mind visiting the dentist. There's never anything wrong with my teeth, the staff at my dentist's office are all super nice, and there's nothing much nicer than freshly dentist-cleaned teeth.
Today, however, it was all different.
Today, the dentist told me I had three cavities that needed filling.
I have never had cavities before. I don't even know what to say. I feel like my teeth have failed me somehow.
I need an explanation.
These are the major things that have changed in my life since I last saw the dentist, a time when I was still - as far as I know - cavity-free:
1) I quit smoking.
2) I started using an electric toothbrush.
3) I moved to Sudbury.
I don't think it was the quitting smoking. I did that a while back, for a few years, and no cavities.
It can't be the toothbrush; my dental hygienist told me she has the same one, and she has no cavities.
There's only one logical conclusion:
DAMN YOU, SUDBURY! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
2 Comments:
You need another tube of that yellow or green stuff or whatever it was that we used in Bio. Remember? To test how prone we were to DENTAL CARIES? As I check my lab book (I kid you not, I have it here in front of me), I see that you were SLIGHTLY prone to dental caries because your tube turned yellow after 120 hours. Perhaps you are now living up to the predictions made back then...
It very well MIGHT be Sudbury's fault! If you moved from a place that puts flouride in the water to a place that doesn't? Then I would think that would have a negative effect on teeth. Yes?
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