Back to the dentist again yesterday. One broken tooth has caused me to miss work several times, spend hours of my life at a dentist office, huge amounts of pain medicated with Advil and penicillin, and about $1600. And I will have two more appointments after this one so they can put on my permanent crown. The next appointment is 2 HOURS long! (And all of you dental hygienists out there saying ‘well you could have avoided this if you had come for your regular cleaning every 6 months’ can just bite me.) If I had just told them to pull the damn thing? $100 and 20 minutes. But no, I have to be a snob and keep all of my teeth. (Despite my fear of dentists, I also have nightmares about all of my teeth falling out.)

I’ve decided I really don’t like my dentist. The root canal guy? He and his hygienist were wonderful. But my dentist is 90 and cranky and laughs when he makes me cry. (Seriously. The man thinks it is funny that I cry.) He scolds me and is planning to buy a condo in Del Bocca Vista (reference, anyone? see the badly spelled title of post for hint) after ripping all of my teeth out. And he doesn’t use nitrous oxide. And his procedures have caused me way more pain than the actual root canal – that doesn’t seem right. Yesterday really hurt and he kept saying “oh that was just a little pinch”. Little pinch my ass, doc. How do I break up with my dentist? Obviously, I will finish this procedure with him but I am sure there is other work that needs to be done and I don’t want him to do it.