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I made it to my dental checkup to get my regular cleaning. Normally my Dentist does the cleaning but he is now in an office where there are dental hygenists. So a very nice woman cleaned my teeth this time. It was an hour and 15 minutes of torture.

As she cleaned my teeth she asked me who normally does the cleaning and I pointed to my Dentist. “It figures,” she said, “they spend 6 weeks on cleaning and then move on to something else. We spend 2 years on this and get thrown out of school if we do it wrong!”

Well, I don’t know what my Dentist normally does while he is in there, but the hygenist decided it would be nice if she spent an hour of our time together beneath my gum line. A couple of times she said she could tell she was hurting me. I told her I was having trouble finding my “happy place.” It was an experience I’ll never forget and I guarantee you that you will not find anyone on the planet that is brushing, flossing, and rinsing more than I am so that I never have to go through it again. I even bought a Sonicare toothbrush and tried it for the first time tonight. The problem is it tickles until you get used to it so brushing is now an event.

I’m looking forward to the next checkup. She’ll find no plaque on me.