Sunday, April 1, 2012

Cavities from the perspective of a young girl

Yesterday, a young girl who couldn't be older than eight checked out at the front desk because she had a cavity. The mother, without asking for an estimate for the composite and amalgam options, chose to have her daughter have a composite, or white, filling. Hearing this, the daughter immediately whines, "I want a silver filling! I don't want a white one." Several dental assistants are at the front desk waiting for their next patients and tell the girl that the white ones are better (more expensive and more appealing, aesthetically). However, the older brother shows his younger sister his silver filling and asks if it's cool. The little girl, this time almost in tears, says that she wants a silver filling. In the end, the scheduling manager scheduled a "silver" filling...

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