My dental hygienist gave me a lecture today after cleaning my teeth.<\/p>\n
I felt bad for a while, but then I thought, Hey, take a chill pill. I brush and floss 99% of the time. What more do you want from me? And since I do those things, the rest is pretty much luck.<\/p>\n
So get off my back.<\/p>\n
The thing is, no one is perfect. These dentist people know <\/em> that which is why they get to be on their high and mighty. <\/p>\n I am not buying it. Yes, I could get all guilty about that 1% that I don’t floss. OR I could get all worried about how maybe I didn’t brush long enough.<\/p>\n BUT I DON”T BUY IT.<\/p>\n Dentists are in a great position. I cannot look and judge for myself how my teeth are doing. I don’t know how to gauge the health of my gums.<\/p>\n So I don’t know how dire the situation is. I may need to have all my teeth pulled out by the end of the year.<\/p>\n Or I may be guilted into getting my teeth cleaned 3 times a year instead of the perfectly adequate 2.<\/p>\n But because I have no way of knowing, I am powerless. I don’t like that. And I don’t like that I am being taken advantage of, in ways I don’t know.<\/p>\n That is a basic human trait, you know. Knowing whether something is right. My toddler knows whether it is right or not. <\/p>\n “No Mommy! I need a FORK for mac&cheese”<\/p>\n She knows it is meant to be eaten with a fork. That’s the right way.<\/p>\n All of us know, inside ourselves, at a very early age, what is right and what is not.<\/p>\n That must be honored in all human interaction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My dental hygienist gave me a lecture today after cleaning my teeth. I felt bad for a while, but then I thought, Hey, take a chill pill. I brush and floss 99% of the time. What more do you want … Continue reading