Personality Driven Dentistry
I spent a good while im-ing with a friend who is a conspiracy theorist. This person tells me very interesting things but worries too much about ending up ‘on a list’ to let me use him/her as my deepthroat. poo, no fun.
You can tell this person cares about you when in parting says, “Put heavy stuff in front of your door.” And you laugh before you realize they’re serious.
Funnier still, I have this other friend who’s site IS being watched cuz he IS on a list. I can’t figure out why at all. But he just thinks it’s hysterically funny.
Side note: There are tons of political, subversive, and conspiratorial sites out there and I have zero desire to be one.
What does interest me is the difference that personality (call it temperament, viewpoint, attitude) can make on someone’s M.O.
I have this dentist (this goes somewhere i promise) who I’ve only seen twice. I think his entire practice is Personality Driven Dentistry. I smell wackiness and disconnect in his mind. He wants to get in there and dig and scrape and make you bleed. He wants to grind down your teeth and replace them and when the insurance company won’t approve his proposition he tells you a story about how they once denied a man from being put on a kidney list so long that he DIED.
I don’t think I’m going to die.
And I’m not going to let Dr. I-shaved-my-eyebrows-like-i’m-Pink-Floyd-personified get his OC off on my perfectly nice teeth.
Dude, Mr. Dentist, it’s a cavity (on one tooth) and it’s (a separate tooth) that I broke a corner off of TEN years ago because of TMJ, and my wonderful former dentist molded stuff on the molar to make it feel normal. Mr. Dr. Dentist Sir, I will not allow you to destroy my tooth because there “might be pain… the nerve might be dying… there might be a cavity.”
There’s no pain, it’s fine. Pay attention.
It’s not even a cap, just a little porcelain or something. My former dentist was really chill, thorough but not at all about overdoing it. And he never ever made me bleed a pint of blood from a normal tartar scraping.
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