Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?
I&#x27;m going to take this moment to rant at dentists!<p>Going to the doctor they get the excuse that they rarely do anything that could possibly hurt. Dentists on the other hand are practically doing minor surgery every time you visit them.<p>I know many of you will never have had any bad experiences at the dentist but I&#x27;ve had tons and what&#x27;s extremely frustrating is many of them are preventable but dentists seem to have almost zero standards.<p>Examples:<p>Lukewarm water please. Many dentists just have tap water (maybe filtered) squirting into your mouth for rinsing. If that water happens to be cold gawd help you if you have a cold sensitive spot.<p>Similarly they have that suction hose which creates a draft. A draft that can cool sensitive teeth to the point they scream in pain.<p>One of the last dentists I went to connected something to my right cheek of my mount the hold it open. He&#x27;d turn around in his chair to get something behind him and yank my head off the headrest.<p>Another dentist I went to recently started cleaning my teeth. It felt like she was taking an ice pick and stabbing my gums. Needs to say I stopped her after about 30 seconds and left.<p>Went to a dentist that was supposed to specialize in painless-ness. He didn&#x27;t have any kind of topical to numb you gums before injecting the anaesthetic. Not that it helps. It always burns like crazy when they inject that stuff for me. It does eventually make that part of my mouth numb though often not numb enough so when they get deep and they have to do it again.<p>When they hit pay dirt it feels like someone took a 6 inch white hot nail and using a hammer pounded it 4 inches deep into my head. The pain is searing. I&#x27;m not exaggerating. On a scale of 1 to 10 it&#x27;s a 45 in pain.<p>I have lots more horror stories. And yes I brush twice a day, floss, and do other things to maintain my teeth. My teeth aren&#x27;t normally painful but every visit to the dentist is hugely scary for me.<p>Someone <i></i>PLEASE<i></i> fix dentistry.