San Jose Dentistry Has Changed for the Better
Remember when you were a kid and you’d go to the dentist to have him check for cavities? You’d walk into that dark waiting room with your mom and sit restlessly while she and the woman at the desk talked about how this one had died and that one got married and this one shouldn’t be mentioned, all scary conversation made even more surreal by the smell of lavender that was always all around you.
When you finally got out of the waiting room, which took seemingly forever, you were sat down in a high back plastic chair with an assortment of metal instruments in your face that looked like the torture robot from Star Wars. The hygienist, who always wanted to talk to you while she was cleaning your teeth, would clean all that plaque away and then the dentist would come in and stick a metal pick into your teeth and gums, telling you how you needed to brush and floss better to avoid what looked like a disaster in your mouth.
The cavities would get filled with metal fillings and you’d be swollen for a few days, terrified to not brush and equally terrified of going back to the dentist and feeling his cold hands and sharp pick in your mouth again. No wonder we all grew up afraid of the dentist. What exactly were they thinking back then? Was it a dental “scared straight” program that we went through as children?
San Jose Dentistry, and dentistry around the country, has changed for the better. Our San Jose family dental office is bright and airy, our attendants are cheery and the wait is never long. The doctor doesn’t scare your children and we don’t use Darth Vader torture robots. Our examination rooms are all modern technology and computer screens where you can see exactly what the inside of your mouth looks like.
And about that lavender smell, you’ll never catch a whiff of that stuff in our office. I don’t know what the deal was with that either but pretty much every patient I’ve ever talked to about childhood dentist experiences remembers it being present. I wonder what the kids today will remember about the dentist when they’re our age? It won’t be a fearful memory. I promise you that.
