....as a very wise woman once said, ‘No one has the dental knowledge to match that of a dentist apart from another dentist’ – you really are in no position to quibble.
So once this master of your mouth has decided which particular horrendous procedure they wish to perform on you, there begins a depressingly degrading process.
Your mouth will be sufficiently numbed so that your lips feel like whale blubber. Pneumatic drills will be forced into your face – the sound of a steel tip breaking down your precious pearly whites will haunt you for days – and a sullen, silent assistant will suck up your uncontrollably gushing saliva with a small vacuum cleaner.
And that is perhaps the worst thing of all: the silent judgement of the dental assistant.
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