{"id":175,"date":"2004-04-27T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/27\/dental-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2004-04-27T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T02:34:00","slug":"dental-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/27\/dental-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Recommendations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my twice-yearly dentist appointment. I&#8217;ve been going to the same guy for nearly 30 years. He made a bundle of money from my parent&#8217;s teeth<sup>1<\/sup>, but has been pissed off that he hasn&#8217;t been able to do the same with my sister and me<sup>2<\/sup>. After the dental hygienist finished x-raying and cleaning my teeth, he popped in to give me the $28 &#8220;adult exam.&#8221;<sup>3<\/sup> That&#8217;s 5 seconds of poking about in the mouth, 5 seconds of moving my tongue around, and some sage advice. To improve the quality of my teeth, I&#8217;m to start drinking 6 <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/seanborg\/mtdew\/dewlinks.htm\">Mt. Dew<\/a>s a day and eat lots of caramel. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p> The caramel bit is tempting, but goes against my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/trinalin\/19633.html\">Portion Control Project<\/a>. Mt. Dew, OTOH &#8211; blech! I can&#8217;t believe I used to drink that. I&#8217;ll stick with water from now on. <br \/> <font size=\"-2\"><\/p>\n<ol title=\"Footnotes:\"> <\/p>\n<li>They didn&#8217;t have great dentists growing up. Once they started going to Bentley&#8217;s their teeth got much better.<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li>Dr. Bentley once took dad aside and with a real serious look on his face, told him to buy me a car when I turned 16. &#8220;That girl will never need braces,&#8221; he told dad. So, since I saved dad a bundle in dental bills, did he get me a car? Of course not. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li>Before you rush off to bitch to your dentist about their outrageous prices compared to mine, I&#8217;ll state the rest of the bill. $52 for the Adult Cleaning. $35.00 for the 4 bitewings. So a total of $115.00. Gah!  <\/ol>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my twice-yearly dentist appointment. I&#8217;ve been going to the same guy for nearly 30 years. He made a bundle of money from my parent&#8217;s teeth1, but has been pissed off that he hasn&#8217;t been able to do the same with my sister and me2. After the dental hygienist finished x-raying and cleaning my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}