Nitrous oxide

[vaneramos]

The left side of my mouth is tender now. It has taken the hygienist two long sessions to clean my teeth, which hadn’t received any attention in three years.

As a little boy I loved going to the dentist. I had lots of trouble with my baby teeth, but that was fine, because Dr. Mazak gave me nitrous oxide. “Now just imagine you’re riding in an airplane high above the earth,” he would say gently as I lay in the chair. It was a marvellous feeling. So he could drill away and I wouldn’t care.

The story goes that one day while Dr. Mazak worked, I started twirling my index finger into his full salt-and-pepper beard. He had to get my mother to come in, sit next to the chair and hold my hand down so he could continue.

What is it with dentists and their dreadful names? I had one with a pleasant name, but he botched a root canal and broke my tooth, so I switched to Dr. Raczik. The one I see now is Mlotek.

He doesn’t use nitrous oxide. So it doesn’t matter that he’s cute, charming and an excellent dentist. I really hate going there.

Comments

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. What's unpleasant about those names? They just sound like they've got that Slavic thing of rough consonants. But some of us like it rough. :)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Roughness I can see, but drilling and scraping? Whatever you want, Pete. Remind me next time I have you tied up somewhere....

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, our dentist was Dr. Ingemi. I called him Dr. Injury.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

One of the most unfortunate names I've heard for a dentist was Scrivener. I know it means something else, but it sounds frightening.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

For the first 19 years of my life I called my dentist Grandpa.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I suppose it didn't hurt to have a dentist in the family.

[bremo.livejournal.com]

For my root canal, the dentist filled me full of nitrous, said I look like a serial killer, talked about having sex with his prom date (I think he assumed I would forget these details) and put Britney Speares on the TV. It was surreal.

What the dentist didn;t know is that throughout the operation, I wasn't sure if the situation was real or a dream and I was considering testing which one it was by punching him. If there were consequences, it was real. As you may guess though, I opted out of performing that test.

The dentist's name was Dr. Forgacs. If I understand correctly the name is hungarian for either "wood shavings" or "carpenter". I dunno which one.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that is pretty surreal! I can't remember anything about those childhood trips, only that they felt good.