Update on Visit to the Dentist
I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting an update on my visit to the dentist. Okay, you haven’t been… in fact, you forgot about it didn’t you? One friend remembered and actually laughed at me about it “Nah nah nah nah nah… you have to go to the dentist today.” (You know who you are, Liz!).
[Don’t know why I dread going to the dentist? Read an entry from last week’s blog to get the scoop.]
So this morning I drove to Falmouth for my 8:10 dental appointment.
I won’t go in to all the gory dental details but I did want to share that I got major praise in my Waterpik efforts. Yup! The hygienist took a peek at my teeth and told me she was going to have to really look for the gunk to put on her little scientific slide. 
Then when she put the slide under the microscope she couldn’t see hardly any bacteria. Yippee!!
I told her that I’d been faithfully Waterpiking every day. I told her that I’d timed the entire routine so that I knew it only took 5:24 minutes to set up, use, and clean up afterwards. She thought this was a good piece of information she could share with other patients.
Focus on the pleasure not the pain was the point in last week’s blog entry. After a week of Waterpiking my teeth, I’m still focusing on the pleasure. And the results have been worth it. My smile is brighter, my breath is better, and I think it makes me look thinner, too.
Are you still trying to overlook the pain or have you started focusing on the pleasure? Give pleasure a try and let me know what happens.
