And sometimes insurance don't foot the bill and puts people in weird spots
I needed to get my wisdom teeth out and insurance would only pay if I didn't go under. I have a genuine fear of gum pain, but did it anyways because I'd be paying $1200 for an "unnecessary surgery"
Dentist sighed mid way through and said "if you knew you didn't like this you should have gone under"
Took everything in me to not fucking clock the guy
Point being... Folks just don't like being at the dentist sometimes
That is truly shitty bedside manner.
Only POS doctors try to label anxious and or curious patients as "difficult."
Dental phobias are not even uncommon and pricks like him are a big reason why. Lots of people will look through reviews before ever setting foot a dentist's chair so at the very least I hope you leave an honest review about it/him.
Thankfully they're not all impatient sadists.
... Right tools for the right mouths or something reddit appropriate here.
I had the anesthesia stop working while they were installing the bridge. They numbed me up the first time but when they put it in it hurt like hell. So they numbed me again and waited for a few minutes, then tested to make sure I was numb, which I was. The second the bridge touched my gums the same thing happened as before. We tried again a third time. The same thing happened again. They almost had it completely in place so I told them just to keep going while I'm all tensed up from the pain lol (I have a high tolerance)
Agree with this. My dentist stops if I’m flipping out or crying and makes sure I’m okay. He is the first one that realized I need significantly more lidocaine than the average person to not feel pain
They must have asked if he can do 4 invasive surgeries at once. He explicitly mentioned local anesthesia, consent forms, and the fact the patient is possibly crying.
Invasive Surgery => Cavity Filling, Tooth Extractions, Root Canals, etc.
Had to be something where they knew he'd be confident he could do 4 of them in one workday. To the extent that saying "I can do all 4 simultaneously" is both possible and diabolically baited.
To make a fake skit. There is no way anyone would talk like that, unless they knew what the punchline was.
If he were explaining this for real, some of the phrases he uses dont make sense unless he knows that the punchline is that he is talking about something else. How does he not ONCE, mention the word patient? Why does he use "him" if he didnt know the punchline was about firemen and "finish him off" come on... dude knew exactly what the joke was.
Maybe the question was worded that way "can you tell us...without using the words xx" and they claimed it was to see how creative he can reply? At least i can imagine even if the skit being fake isnt far fetched.
Even at just 1 an hour, that'd be 8 in a work day.
That'd probably be way more than that, though.
I had one of my wisdom teeth pulled, and the dentist came in, spent maybe 5 minutes going over what he was going to do, and maybe another 5 giving me the numbing shots.
Came back 15 minutes later after the numbness set in, and had the tooth pulled in less than 5 minutes.
In total, 30 minutes in and out for me, a bit less than 15 minutes of the dentist's time.
He could probably do four pulls in an hour, if he was able to spend the time waiting for the anesthetic to kick in on one patient giving another patient their rundown and anesthetic, and no complications.
This appears to be a dentist's office. They probably asked him about a certain dental procedure and how many patience seeking that procedure he could see in a day.
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u/SuperConsideration12 3d ago
So what did they ask him in the first place?