Went to my semi-annual dental appointment this afternoon. Greeted with smiles — the lead dental assistant said she was really happy to see me because I was always an “easy clean” — she’d just come off of back-to-back appointments with two folks who hadn’t been to the dentist in a number of years …<\/p>\n
I told her it was a mutual pleasure being an “easy clean.”<\/p>\n
That the dentist’s comment, when she came for her final blessing of my cleaning, that she’d “fall over backwards” if I ever turned out to have a cavity, was also kind of nice.<\/p>\n
(Before I get hate mail from folks who have dental problems, I officially Did My Time in the related area of Orthdonture for several years. So there.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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