Our dentist and his staff are great. The office is comfortable and inviting, the waiting room has current issues of magazines and plenty of 
seating for all. I am pretty sure my girls were sold on Dr. S when they sat down for the first time to get an exam and they were handed the remote control to the TV attached to the chair and were allowed to watch whatever show they wanted without any complaint from the doctor or his staff.
Right before a visit not long ago The Chicken was complaining that hasn’t gotten a referral to the orthodontist. Yes, really, complaining about not having to go to the orthodontist. Clearly the child wasn’t around back in my day when if you wore braces you had nicknames like metal mouth or antenna face. If there was an internet you would have probably Googled stuff like “Will my braces rust?” or “If two people with braces kiss will their faces stick together?” She has no idea how easy she has it and how there are so many options out there for orthodontic patients nowadays. No more brace face or metal mouth from elementary school until your senior year.
I told her if she was so unhappy with the fact that she didn’t hasn’t gone to the orthodontist that maybe she should mention something to Dr. S the next time we went for a cleaning. And say something she did. She told him how he was responsible for making her not want to smile and how she was unsure of her future all because she was she was pretty sure that she should have visited the orthodontist by now.
Dr. S, having three teenage daughters himself, chuckled and after giving me a ‘Don’t worry I totally understand teenage girls are crazy and I hold nothing against you’ wink, he looked at The Chicken and said, “You’re right? On your way out ask Deanna for some rock candy and just chomp the heck out of it. Maybe just eat some plain rocks too. Because not only are you and your nearly perfect teeth letting me down in the orthodontics department, you have had a sad lack of cavities filled here too. So don’t brush your teeth after you eat all of that rock candy and I am sure by the next time you come here we will have all sorts of things that we need to take care of.”
The Chicken blinked and gave him the ‘Oh my goodness I think you have just lost your mind’ look and said, “Can you hand me the remote, I am pretty sure one of my shows is on.”
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