Dentist

[slemslempike]

Managed to get to the dentist for 8.45 this morning, after a short delay when I didn't work out the difference between the emergency dental people and the community dentist, and just stood rather pathetically in reception, bleating that I didn't have a letter.

I got my teeth filed down (two of them are chipped at the edges without being decayed, and "they rub on my tongue". What actually happens is that when I don't have something in my mouth, I run my tongue along the edges and forget to stop before it gets sore.), and I have to go to Morecambe next month to have an x-ray to check on my wisdom teeth. They didn't start coming through until last year, and two started poking through, and then stopped. The dentist said 25 is the right age to have problems with wisdom teeth, which isn't terribly comforting.

After the filing, the dentist put some kind of gel on my teeth to encourage...something, and told me not to eat or drink for an hour, but not to worry because it tastes nice. Actually, it tastes of banana. So far today I have had banana flavoured green beans, banana flavoured beans on toast and banana flavoured water. I am going home to brush my teeth vigorously before I end up with banana flavoured sick.

Comments

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Glad the dentist didn't go too badly but WHY IS EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY FLAVOURED WITH BANANA? Bonjela tastes like banana. Other medical things taste like banana. Now I'm scared to go to the dentist because of the banana-flavoured things.

There are no concessions made to the banana-phobic here, is all I'm saying.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I guess it's no good suggesting she eats a banana, then....

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Hee! I am horribly allergic to them, which is bah-nasty. And so even the synthetically-produced flavour of them (or the smell, frankly) is an anathema.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Is America the only place that uses artificial bubble-gum flavor? Because I think that rivals artificial banana, being an artificial version OF SOMETHING ALREADY ARTIFICIAL.

*is glad that dentist recently praised teeth so much I don't have to go back for a whole year, but after 10 years of orthodonture, I probably deserve that*

*cannot now see whether 'artificial' is correctly spelled, having typed it so many times*

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've had bubble-gum flavoured things here. Not very often though. And don't forget ketchup flavoured crisps! I rather liked them when I was little.

My teeth are generally pretty good - I've never had any decay - but I thought that as I was claiming jobseeker's I might as well take up anything going. Free dental care! Hurrah!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Alas, banana.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but I hate it. Perhaps the only thing that will adequately hide the disgusting medical taste is something of equal retching power. The only possible upside is that at least it doesn't incorporate the slimy and revolting texture of banana.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Bonjela tastes like aniseed to me! Admittedly I'm not a sensitive bananaphobe, though.

And I had that teeth stuff too, as a last-resort non-root-canal on my niggly tooth. I had actually thought that maybe it was perhaps just a placebo :)

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

Ah, that could also be it! That is the other odd thing to which I am allergic. (Or rather, I'm allergic to liquorice. I have no idea what aniseed does to me but I can't abide the smell or taste.)

It's odd, all the banana-flavoured medicinal things here. In Australia, cherry flavour is the children's medicine flavouring of choice, and there's a national consensus that cherry Coke and similar drinks are the work of the devil.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've never had it before when I've had my teeth filed. I'm not really sure what it's meant to have done. Rebuilt enamel? Smoothed the surface? Make me ILL?

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

told me not to eat or drink for an hour, but not to worry because it tastes nice. Actually, it tastes of banana.

Oh. Oh that is quite rubbish, dude. You would think he'd at least warn you.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

She just said it would taste nice! This was a vile lie. Probably counts as professional misconduct.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Well done for getting it done. I know what you mean about the rough edges: somehow, you just can't keep your tongue away from them, can you? Even when it involves you pulling strange faces (says he, from embarrassed experience).

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

They're so tantalising! Luckily for me I still have a tongue stud to play with.

[owl]

I like the taste of banana, but the texture makes me sick. Banana ice-cream is fine :)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

No no no! Taste: bad! Texture: bad!

[lsugaralmond.livejournal.com]

Do you remember that awful banana-flavoured medicine you used to get as a child when you were too young to swallow pills? I can't actually remember what it was for but seemed to be a cure-all that doctors gave to all children with any minor ailment. Even now the taste of real banana brings back the awfulness of that fake banana tasting medicine, so you have my sympathy having to go around with that taste in your mouth all day. Perhaps vodka would get rid of it?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Vodka! That's the most sensible suggestion I've had all day.

I remember the banana medicine well. I don't think I reacted as badly to it then as I do now, possibly because of not yet experiencing the crushing disappointment of all smoothies having banana in, and people claiming that you can't taste it. Bah.