I went to a new dentist yesterday. I wanted to establish myself as a new patient at a place near my new school. It’s so much easier to make appointments when they are closer to school than to home.
The cleaning I received was the most gentle cleaning I can remember ever getting. Usually the cleaners run that noisy drill-sounding thing across my teeth and run it into my gums, making them hurt and bleed. I even remember having blood speckles on my shirt once. This person used that thing, but did not destroy my gums. Nice!
Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of the place or the crazy map of my teeth that was on the screen while I was waiting in the exam room.
The drill thing is a water pick. I have a, perhaps unreasonably strong, preference for having them just use their scrapey-tools. I’ve asked that it be listed in my file to not use the water pick. And I say it out loud to the hygienists, too.
They don’t use the water pick any more. It has improved my teeth-cleaning experience exponentially to have only scrapey-tools.