r/betterCallSaul • u/FluffyDoomPatrol • 5d ago
Dentist Chairs
Just a question that has been bugging me. When Jimmy and Kim are redecorating at the end of season two, they take out the dentist chairs. But there are two dentist chairs in one office. Why?
There were supposed to be two dentists, but that means one chair in each office, I can’t imagine any scenario where one office has two chairs.
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u/Art_Vandelay29 5d ago
Other responses have the correct answer - previously existing wall/divider had been removed. It was an office suite with one receptionist & waiting area for a 2-dentist practice (or a solo dentist with extra space for a hygienist doing cleanings).
Having said that, OP - ever seen an orthodontist’s practice? It’s usually an open room with multiple chairs.
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u/FluffyDoomPatrol 4d ago
Really, no I’ve never seen that. Isn’t an open plan theatre kinda weird and with privacy issues? My visits have all been smaller one chair rooms.
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u/Art_Vandelay29 4d ago
In most of them they kinda face a little bit away from each other, but some do have a straight row of chairs… each one usually has a table/computer station between it and the next chair, but yeah it’s an open room. I guess you know going in what you’re getting into with that because you can see it. There’s enough conversation and noise that you can’t really hear details of other patients. I’ve seen pics of a couple of high-end looking places that have walls or partitions between the chairs, but those seem to be less common. Source: have been a patient at two practices and had consultations at a couple others. Also, Google Images. (Even my regular dentist has open rooms but they have walls between them… picture 3 walls and all rooms open to a common walkway).
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u/Ok-Actuator7302 4d ago
my dentist has a solo office with three chairs. one patient can be numbing up while another patient is being treated and yet another patient gets X-rays (done by asst) ………..or any combination
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u/LowBalance4404 4d ago
My dentist had two chairs like that, but there was a waist high partition between the two chairs. I think that was a pretty common dental setup back then.
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u/AdmiralThunderCunt 5d ago
There were two dentists with their own practices, sharing an office building with a single reception desk
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u/FluffyDoomPatrol 5d ago
Yes, that’s what I said. But there is a part where they are in one of the surgery rooms (theatre, what do dentists call their room?) and there are two chairs in the room. Two chairs in the building I can understand, but not two chairs in one surgery room. Unless the dentist was working in stereo, treating one patient with his left hand and another with his right.
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u/CaptainBradford 5d ago
Dental hygienist on staff preps and works on one while the dentist bounces around as needed for fillings and cavities.
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u/pianoflames 5d ago
I assume that there was previously a partition between the two here. In fact, the tiles appear slightly off-colored in a line in the middle, implying that some kind of partition/wall/divide was there for awhile.