Dentist's Funniest Moment

Video Transcript

"So basically there are all kinds of different things that a dentist can use to kind of help improve their ability to deliver really good care. Certainly what I am wearing, we call these surgical loops. They're essentially glasses with little microscopes on them and certainly when we're looking on teeth we know that teeth are very small so the ability to find things is very difficult so what we use is usually some sort of form of magnification in order to improve the access and visibility in the mouth. I have a lot of actually funny moments that I encounter. It isn't kind of a one time thing but we see them all the time. Certainly one of the funniest ones that we deal with basically day in and day out is basically when a patient has a lot of different things in their mouth, then it is a lot more difficult to communicate to the dentist what is going on and we call that gibberish and we see a lot of patients that try to talk while we are working on them. Certainly trying to decipher the gibberish that they present with is always very comical because even to this day after several years of experience it is still hard to decipher everything that they are trying to say. That is one funny moment that we encounter day in and day out. Certainly when we are taking impressions of peoples' teeth and gums that can be a very messy, messy scenario so when a patient leaves you may find that there is a impression material that is still on their lips or on their nose or on their hair and that can be funny because often times we miss some of where the material goes. And the other one that is often funny is when we use laughing gas. Laughing gas again relaxes the patient but it also helps release their inhibitions a little bit so sometimes it is funny when a patient basically tells you things that you wouldn't normally ask and basically when their inhibitions release they tell you very very unusual funny things. Certainly when I spend a great deal of time with the patient getting them out of pain or getting their mouth healthy to the way where they can smile and talk again, those are always very very rewarding to me. Whether or not the patient tells me or not, when I know that I have fixed their mouth to adequate health that is certainly a very rewarding experience. We also see a lot of children and I love to see children walk out saying hey, that wasn't that bad. That to me is a very rewarding experience because I have helped create kind of an ideal experience for the child and try to relieve you know, people of the stigma that all dentists cause pain and all dentists hurt people. It doesn't always have to hurt when you go to the dentist so those are all moments that are rewarding to me. Not necessarily from a financial standpoint but more of a patient being happy or pleased with the results."