Why does it seem like our dentists are always mad at us?
Photo-Illustration: Voraseth Yingsiricharoenkorn/Getty Images/EyeEm Teeth — what are they? Pebbles in your mouth, bones you can see. The closest thing we have to proof that God doesn’t exist. Yes, it seems we’re just alone here, pointlessly dying on Earth with our rotting mouth bones. But at least we have dentists to care for us.I recently underwent the search for a new dentist. It had been a fairly unreasonable amount of time since I’d seen my last dentist, because that dentist scared me.
“My question for you is …” she said. “Where did you get this from in the first place? Have you heard this from patients?” “I did have a dentist who was upset about my lack of flossing and brushing habits,” said ADP No. 2. “It wasn’t just an impression I got, they were pretty upfront about it.” Et cetera, et cetera. It would seem the experience is not uncommon. So, back to the question. Are dentists actually mad at us?
“If it’s embarrassing you that you haven’t flossed,” Tabib said, “we’re not about to make you feel worse about it. Just to educate you.” Hm. Then why do all the other dentists make us feel like we want to crawl into one of the holes in our teeth and die? “It is a tactic sometimes that’s been used by dentists to — I don’t know, I won’t say browbeat,” he said, “but to control the situation.
Hm. While I did hope to get a dentist to go on record saying she curses her patients nightly — even offering dentists anonymity to do so — I suppose it’s not particularly surprising that no one did. Part of the dentist’s code, I assume.
“Our research has produced results that suggest that the anxiety level of the perceiver is associated with a tendency to read ambiguous faces as if they’re angry or disgusted,” Zinbarg said. “So if the dental patient is anxious, like, oh, I’ve been a bad boy, they wanted me to floss and I didn’t, oh, jeez, it kind of triggers some buttons leftover from childhood when we didn’t meet our parents expectations.
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