I Heart Going to the Dentist

I had a very interesting and screwed up day at work today. I'm not gonna get into that. I had a dentist appointment right after work, which was the best destresser I could have had.

You have to experience my dental office to believe it. Dental Professionals of Evanston, that has 2 dentists, located in 1800 Sherman. OK first I walk in and there is a huge aquarium with tropical fish and the biggest hermit crabs you've ever seen. The receptionist, Daniela, is positively one of the prettiest people I know. I give her chocolate from Trader Joe's because she helped us file a claim with our health insurance that paid out the full amount $500 for my husband's bite guard. She went completely out of her way to file it, and she also went out of her way to change my appt, and insisted on it. She is one of the friendliest people I know. Being that friendly would exhaust me. She is very happy that I gave her chocolate.

Then the room with the chair. Outside the window, I swear, the most beautiful view of Evanston you will ever find. I just want to live there, inside the dentist's office. And there's a painting of a beachy scene right in front of the chair, which is strangely relaxing for its cheap hotel-room-painting quality.

Then I meet Jeff, my hygenist for the day. He asks me a hundred personal questions, which is one of those tactics to calm nervous patients. It works. Then some x-rays. He apologizes for the uncomfortable plastic things, which don't even bother me at all. Then comes the cleaning. Jeff has on these binocular glasses. It's all scrubbing and scraping, water and suction, repeat, repeat, repeat, amazing. Jeff says stains are his biggest pet peeve so he kept scrubbing and scraping and watering and suctioning the insides of my front teeth, because although it is inside, the teeth are transparent so the stains will show through. It was very relaxing just being able to LIE DOWN and not think and have someone fix me.

Then the dentist, Verena Phillips, comes in, definitely the prettiest dentist I've ever known, and she's super nice and inquisitive about my personal life, using the tactic. It works. I find out that my front teeth are the whitest possible on the whiteness scale, but my other teeth are straight-up yellow. Which is due to my use of OTC whitening things. She prods a little, then while I'm swishing floride, she says bye.

Then I pay, and Daniela is super bubbly and pretty and remembers I do origami, and I am super impressed, then I leave happy, as usual, because they are so great. I highly recommend that place to anyone living in Evanston. (After each visit to my dentist in Jacksonville, I had to go home to take a bath with aromatherapeutic oils.)

After I left, unfortunately, I was back to being stressed. I hate this.