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The Dental Diaries – 2

Other dentists say the usual ‘This won’t hurt at all’ or ‘I’m almost finished’. Although you know that it’s absolutely not true, you let yourself be fooled a little into believing it because hope keeps you going.

But not so with my dentist. He believes in telling it like it is. ‘Brace yourself, this will hurt.’, ‘You have to bear with it because it will take another half an hour to finish.’, etc. are sentences he routinely says nonchalantly. 

Once, just as I was sitting down in ‘The Chair’, he even said, ‘Make yourself comfortable because once I start the work I’ll only stop after it’s done and that will take around an hour.’ !

Err… ‘Make yourself comfortable…’ ??? In ‘The Chair’ ???!!!!

My dentist’s a funny chap.

Comments

Seema Smile said…
Who's this dentist. I want to consult him instead of that scary hairy upper-lip lady I usually go to
shachi joshi said…
hahaha! oh shut you mouth Dr. M will start checking out your bad tooth & you will finally surrender to 'The Chair' ! but Dr. M is really Dentabulous Doc :)
The Wanderer said…
@ Seema: Ewwwwwwwwwww !!!

@ Shachi: :))))))

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