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While getting my cavity filled at the dentist yesterday, he had to take off part of the archwire in order to get to it. He was also examining how my teeth were moving. I made mention of the fact that I'm only able to chew with my back teeth because they're the only ones that come together now, and how my front teeth are so sensitive to pressure that I can't bite into anything, and that my teeth are still biting my cheek because of the molar bands. The assistant said, "Boy, you sure have alot of problems! Even little kids that come in here with braces don't have that many problems!"

She puts the "ass" in assistant!

I just had to get that off my chest.

I could also mention that I now have a cut on my lip after the dentist poked it with the wire. Jeez!

join the club.... i go to a dental hospital and have students working on me who don't even know what their doing most of the time...

wow! I hope the ortho reprimanded her for the comments she made so that she won't make the same mistake twice!
how rude!

Maybe the dingaling needs to be reminded that ortho treatment for an adult is much more difficult than a child! If you didn't put her in her place, you're a better person than I am.

Chris

Well, that's just insensitive! I don't think I would have liked that one bit either.

There are words for people like that! And I think you nailed it on the head!

The ortho and Assistant told me that adults feel the pain much more than children and that in general have a rougher time with it.

she'll pick the wrong person to pick on one day....

Good luck!

genxsis wrote: She puts the "ass" in assistant!

hehehe AMEN! Luckily mine have been pretty good, but you nailed it with that description-I can't believe she said that to you!


Hopefully things will go better next time and you'll get a more 'socially mature' for lack of a better term, assistant

Eve

The ortho and Assistant told me that adults feel the pain much more than children and that in general have a rougher time with it.

I think we are also much more likely to talk about it than a kid is.

adults feel the pain much more than children and that in general have a rougher time with it.
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Or maybe because most adults have suffered at the hands of a bad dentist (or ortho) at some point in their lives and have become more sensitive because of the insensitive treatment? All it takes is one bad apple... That would be my story in a nutshell.

But you're right about the ass part. How rude!

I agree with the others...it's a bit incensitive...but I'm sure she didn't mean this in a rude way....maybe she was joking? I still don't think such things should be said though.

I've had wonderful experiences with everyone within the dental field since I got my new dentist so it's hard for me to imagine an assistant actually saying such a thing and really meaning it

Definately an idiotic thing to say.

Surely someone who works at an orthodontic office knows adult orthodontia is a bit more tender than it is for a child. What a dimwitted and insensitive comment to make

i woulda said

"Excuuuuuuuuuse me??? Im so sorry for feeling pain" in a very sarcastic way

Thank you everyone for backing me up on this! I'm not sure exactly what she meant by her comment to me. But I think one of the reasons children don't say as much is possibly because their parents tell them that they have to go through with this whole braces thing whether they like it or not and they're not as comfortable telling anyone except their parents about their difficulties. And then maybe the parents tell them that those difficulties are normal and that they just have have to put up with them. Those kind of things were my case when I was younger.