Got some Oral Care

Why I scheduled a dentist appointment on my first day back to work I'll have to wonder. So I take a full week off and then get the holiday Monday and in my wisdom have a dentists appointment for the next day. I supposed didn't realize that it was actually a holiday. I do that. So anyways, I just had enough time to debrief the kids and give them new tasks before having to whisk away to another town for my cleaning. Now that our Guelph offices are closing I suppose that I should look for a closer oral care professional, but I won't Dr Hum is the best. I'm not kidding. You don't work on teeth for twenty plus years and not be excellent. I have my own hygienist now too, she even remembers facts about me. Maybe they're written in the file, I don't know. But she is good and not overly violent with her assortment of metal jabbers. I suspect their primary objective is to make everyone bleed. They're pretty proficient at getting my blood running. I know because I look into the vacuum tube when they lower it into my mouth to see what is being sucked out of me. There are shades of red. That and she frequently waters her work and sucks it up, I can only assume that constant rinsing isn't only for the scaled off plaque. Or is it plack? The internet didn't provide a definitive answer in the first three clicks so I will just go with the Q version, since Q doesn't get enough play. It's a key letter but is really nothing without it's pal U. They always roll together. I wonder if they were childhood friends or met in university. Either way, I digress. So my gums bled. That's how I know it was a success, well that and the fact that I was cavity free again. That's about 6 in a row. This is a big deal for me. I had soft enamel growing up and almost never had a clean checkup. Either that or my dentist said that and loved doing fillings. Which I can only assume is not the case, since they really suck, for me in particular. So we did the whole cleaning thing and then she forced some floss on me and we were done. I paid the fee, for now, and scheduled my next visit. It's not very intimidating when you don't have that cavity roulette hanging over you. It used to be nerve wracking to sit while the dentist scratched over your teeth slowly. They would go back for an extra poke if his sharp hook caught anything. And give it a good yank if there was a hole, wrenching your head like a fish on the hook. That's how you know he caught you, caught you not living up to your end of the deal. Then comes the guilt inspiring taunting you get about brushing and flossing more. Twice a day is the minimum, three times is ideal. Who is brushing after lunch?!? I do it the two weeks before going to the dentist and that's it. I do actually floss more now. Not daily, maybe 4 times a week. Again, except those two weeks leading up to the fabled appointment. Why two weeks you might be wondering? Well, my dentist informed me that if you go wild with it for two or more weeks before it doesn't matter as much what happened in the preceding months. It gets your gums in shape and can remove a good portion of recent staining. The only tell-tale is the amount of 'scale' accumulated on your teeth, which is minimal with with the minimal brushing. If I was a douche I'd say that was a life hack. But I'm not, so it's just how to beat the system and avoid the guilt trip. You're welcome.