the Clueless Dentist

It's been a while since I had a good dentist story.

This one starts with a crown from a tooth that I cracked at Christmas.  Apparently, there was an imperfection in the crown they put on in February.  They offered to replace it "free of charge."  By "free of charge" they clearly are not counting the 90 minute appointment to remove the new-ly placed, but faulty original crown and the 45 minutes to seat the new newly fixed crown, or the added radiation exposure caused by the new x-rays to make sure the new newly fixed crown doesn't have the same problem as the faulty original.  Oh well - we're done having kids anyway, right?

So, last week they called me with GREAT NEWS!!  My new crown had come in early.  Wow!  Awesome!  But really - so what?  My appointment is still on the 10th. 

I don't think they really called me to tell me that - they called to say: "The doctor has time to see you right now, would that work?"

Yeah - sure - let me drop everything that I'm doing and run over to have a crown put on RIGHT NOW!  Who is like "sure, sounds great!  I was really craving a little dental work today?"  ??

So I go to my original appointment today.  I get the new crown put on, and just as I'm finishing up, my phone starts to ring.  Who is it? 

It's the dentist's office.  They are calling to let me know that Allison is overdue of a checkup.  Hello - I'm RIGHT DOWN THE HALL.  This would bother me less if I wasn't in there so often that they don't even ask anything when I come in.  It's like "hey Jamie!  How's it going?"  I'm the 'Norm Peterson' of Midwest Dental.

Also, I believe that they were the ones to fill out the referral for Allison to see a pediatric dentist (at thier request).  Update your records, people.