At the Dentist

I don't mind the dentist, I've never had a traumatic experience with one or been attacked by one of their tooth scalpels, it's been non-traumatic plain sailing for me and my dentist for a very long time now. I like the fact that my dentist knows me as a person and not just a patient, she asks how's my school's going and my brother all that, which is lovely. Well, it's lovely until she talks about my tea consumption. Because I'm British clearly the only thing that I am capable of drinking is tea. My dentist isn't really friends with fruit juice and has a moan at me when I drink that let alone a tooth staining sugary cup of death. It would seem she is not a fan of drinking in general, 'you must only drink water' is a popular saying of  her's, which is the most anti-fun thing I've heard all week, and this week I've been learning about Stalin. It would seem that whenever I do anything it as always wrong at the dentist. I drink without a straw, i drink caffeine, i drink fruit juice, but this is the substance of life. Dental hygiene is a bit backwards. The NHS tell you to eat 5 bits of fruit per day but the dental people (not too sure on their organisation) say you can't because it will kill your teeth, and no one likes dead teeth. No one.

I also hate going to the dentist for only one reason: it's starts the debate for whether i should get braces. It comes every 9 months like an unwanted child to fester in the back of mine and my parent's minds to umm and ahh about cost and self image. The thing is, I don't need braces medically and as far as I'm concerned, if it's not essential then I'd rather spend two thousand pounds on an amazing family holiday and go somewhere where I have some memories that will last with me forever. Or a car, or driving lessons, or car insurance, I'll be needing that soon. My mum says that she wishes that she had braces when she was younger but never did and regrets it now, but quite honestly, I don't care about my teeth that much. Maybe it would be nice to have straight teeth but it's not that bad, sure enough, when I'm older I'll regret that too, but that will be my mistake. I'm not saying having straight teeth makes you vain, it's all up to you, it's your body and you can do what you want to it, but that stuff is wasted on me. Although my friend did say that my teeth look like God's playing a game of Tetris in my mouth and just can't make a straight line out of it.

Maybe i should call the orthodontist.