Dentists and Dollar Signs

It always seems like your teeth hurt more after going to the dentist than before. They poke, they scrape, they "polish," they floss, and it all just hurts. Maybe I have over sensitive gums, maybe I don't floss as much as I should, but you would think that getting a preventitive cleaning wouldn't make your teeth hurt more.

It always makes mine hurt worse. I have one tooth that is sensitive to sweets, and my front two teeth are sensitive to cold. Now the sweet tooth some have told me is an indication of a cavity. But I have yet to have a dentist find one anywhere on that tooth. All of my teeth that are sensitive to anything are hyper-sensitive for the first couple of days after a visit with the dentist. And my gums! Holy Crap they hurt! After being poked, proded and scraped underneath can you really blame them?

And cavities. Can you really believe a dentist when he says you have a cavity? Like for instance, our previous dentist (we've since switched). I opened my mouth for the exam and before she even put a tool in my mouth she says "Oh yep you've got four cavities." I find this very suspicious. How does she see with one glance that I have exactly four cavities? And my husband, she found 8 in his mouth, just right off the bat. How is this possible? How can she see so clearly before she even touches a thing that there is a cavity? Do they glow red in her eyes, or do my teeth just have dollar signs all over them?

Well we'll soon find out if she was a fraud or not. My husband only got two of his "cavities" fixed. The ones on the teeth that were bugging him. So he has an appointment in a couple of weeks with the new doctor, and if he finds the same four then I will just have to eat my words. But until then, I don't trust dentists.