Small Towns Podcast
Small Towns Podcast
E28: Dentistry
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Welcome millions upon millions, perhaps billions, of faithful podcast listeners. We are your hosts, Jason Kimber and Dave Simmons.
SPEAKER_01We'll bring you along with us as we share life stories from our experiences living in small towns, or in Jason's case, an unincorporated community. That's true. Along with genius suggestions for solving world problems and a whole lot of laughs. This is the Small Towns Podcast. Welcome once again, everyone out there to the Small Towns Podcast. I'm Dave Simmons, joined by the ever incomparable Jason Kimbert. That's the nicest thing anybody ever said about me. Thank you, Dave. I don't know if we can Is it any bet is there anything any better than incomparable? I don't think so because it's audible. If you're incomparable, like you compare to nothing. Yeah, no, nothing else compares to you, as the Sinead O'Connor once said. The Sinead O'Connor. The Sinead O'Connor. Hey, good news. I got some exciting, exciting information for us today. But um I'm on, I didn't mean to interrupt, but I am on the edge of my seat. So not only you, but all of our listeners out there. Um some good friends that I have at Aspen Dental have asked us to pass on some information for them, which I think is a very noble cause that they have going on. Um Aspen Dental of Cash Valley is having a free dental day. Free dental! Are you kidding me? Free dental day on November 13th. Um, you know, a couple weeks from now. Okay. We're gonna we're gonna make sure we get this information out on this podcast and then the next podcast as a reminder, because that'll still be a couple weeks before November 13th. But the idea here is is to help those in the community that don't have access to dental health or unable to afford these services. So that is awesome. Um one service will be provided. So you can get in a cleaning, you can have a filling or an extraction. Now, can't go in and say I need braces. Can I get some veneers along the front? We're gonna need you to really do some things here. But the basic things that um maybe some families just don't have that insurance and can't afford, um, go in and and anytime between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., first come, first served at Aspen Dental. They're located at 170 East, 1400 North in beautiful Logan, Utah.
SPEAKER_00Now, just I know that you've said it, but just in the spirit of getting this information out there, because it's a big deal. It is a big deal. Just what's the date again?
SPEAKER_01November 13th, that's uh of 2021, so coming up here. Okay. Aspen Dental. They've been my dentist for many years and my family's dentist, and they are fantastic. But I'm gonna tell you right now. Please. I'm not I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, just because I'm sure they're gonna listen to this at some point.
SPEAKER_00If you sugarcoat it, you'll probably get a cavity.
SPEAKER_01I probably that's what they want. Uh all I know is they have been fantastic for my family over the years. Kilda is our dental hygienist, and there nobody's nicer than Kilda. Oh. She remembers things that she shouldn't have to remember, like the fact that I have a real problem with Halloween. It seems like my six-month thing comes around right before. Well, actually, I think I'm due.
SPEAKER_00You probably are because it's we're like a couple of weeks from the big day.
SPEAKER_01Every time coming up around that time, she says, Are you uh gonna be okay? I just hunk her down in the basement.
SPEAKER_00So not only is she like dead, she's a dental assistant, dental hygienist.
SPEAKER_01Dental hygienist, she's also a life coach.
SPEAKER_00Life coach.
SPEAKER_01She's fantastic. But Dr. Cameron there, he's he's he's really good. Let me give you an idea of Dr. Cameron's skills. Okay. In fact, this is gonna tell you a little bit about my dental history, which I'm sure all of our listeners out there are just on their edge to f of their seats to know about. I want to know more. Well, I'm gonna tell you more. Do you know that I have I am 45 years old, knocking on 46. I have never had a cavity.
SPEAKER_00Uh wait, what do the kids say when they like bat? No, wait, is that is that it seems a little sus. Seems a little sus.
SPEAKER_01You're gonna say cap.
SPEAKER_00Cap. That's cap. That's well, I don't know if I believe it, so I don't know if it's cap. Well, Susie doesn't believe it. She yeah, um, but that is seems a little bit sus. But you you're telling me you went 45 years. Yeah. And have never seen I mean you've got it, I mean, I'm sitting across the table from you. You're your pretty white sleeves.
SPEAKER_01No, here's the thing. Okay. Susie would disagree, and I'd really be interested to see what Kelda and Dr. Cameron say. Because here's what happens.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01It's probably within the last year, maybe a year and a half, I'm in the dental chair. And it's and you know, at this point I'm a little cocky about the fact that I don't get cavities.
SPEAKER_00You're like, why don't I even bother going? Yeah, I mean, maybe I'll do your dental work. My teeth are impenetrable.
SPEAKER_01Yes. So I'm laying in the chair, and Kelda's done her work, and Dr. Cameron comes in to just check some things out, and he goes, Well, I think that there might be a starting of a cavity there. Now, now I I can't handle that. Yeah, you're like, now to this day, I don't I haven't had this conversation with Dr. Cameron, but it it shocked me enough where I said, Well, I think you're gonna want to check again, because I don't get I've never had a cavity.
SPEAKER_00All of a sudden Dave's like, Listen, I'm not a dentist, but I play one on a podcast.
SPEAKER_01I've never had a cavity, you're gonna want to look at that again. So he goes back in there and he says, Well, I mean in his head he's like, you know, there's something. But he says, let's just put a little flag on it in their computer system so for next time. So the next time comes around and he looks, he looks in there, and look, I've never had a shot for a cavity, I've never had any type of gas, which I know is your favorite part. I can't wait to talk about it. It's my favorite part of the dentist. All he did is pull out a little laser, zm, zm, done. So that's not a cavity.
SPEAKER_00I I think that's probably more of a like what's below a cavity. I'm gonna call it a blemish.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, maybe just a slight blemish. It was probably, between you and I, a little bit of twix.
SPEAKER_00It might have been, yeah, had it been me, as you talk about my affinity for the uh the happy gas, I think it's nitrous oxide is the uh appropriate term. It probably would have been part of a chocolate chip that I would have crammed in between two teeth in hopes of getting a cavity, in hopes of getting the laughing children.
SPEAKER_01So you enjoy the gas enough to hope that you have cavities each time you go in.
SPEAKER_00Every time I pray I get a cavity. Um, you know, so you if I'm picking up what you're putting down, Susie is doubting this because she thinks that little she wants me to have had a cavity. And she thinks the little blip-blip constitutes a with the laser. Our sound effects guy is, you know. We gotta a little blip-blip with a laser, she thinks that's your first cavity.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she thinks I had a cavity. I say no.
SPEAKER_00You know, okay, I let's just push that aside for a minute. Even if that was your first one, I mean that's what, 43 years into never?
SPEAKER_01It wasn't. Okay, first of all.
SPEAKER_00I did not have a cavity. So you're and your plan is to to weather this the sojourn we call life, yeah, never having a cavity. Which I think you could do it. If Kelda and Dr.
SPEAKER_01Cameron are listening, I'd like them to never tell me that I have had a cavity, even if I have. Just laser it, don't say a word about it. Exactly. Just let Dave live in this fantasy world that he's never had a cavity until the day he dies.
SPEAKER_00Well, then all of a sudden I can just picture if I was a wall in your dental off if I was a fly on the wall in your dental office, where all of a sudden, let's just call it 10, 15 years down the road from here, you hear that really high-pitched noise, which we all identify as a drill, and then you'll be like, What's that?
SPEAKER_01I've heard it from the other chair across.
SPEAKER_00And you're like, oh, just this guy next door, we had to turn it up a little bit. That's the new Muse channel, helps people relax. Because that's impressive. Well, I like to think so. It's it's it's one of my claims to fame. Um taking nothing away from you at all, uh, but I find this awesome because I first of all I'm Team Dave. I believe you've never had cafety.
SPEAKER_01Because if you were Team Susie, I'd be, I don't know what I'd do.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. No, let's do it. No, I for sure Team Dave, because I, in high school, um, I went to Raff River High School, Go Trojans, um, one of my best friends, who fun fact, he ended up marrying uh my first cousin, Camille. So, best friend became family. His name is Wade, and similar concept, like I don't remember how old he was, but he was married. I bet he's probably at least in his mid-30s, maybe even early 40s. And he said the same thing. The dentist said, uh, it looks like we got just a little cavity here we gotta check on. And he said, he said to the dentist as well, uh, check again. That's kind of what I said. I wasn't being mean.
SPEAKER_01No, but it just kind of like shocked me enough. I'm like, uh, I really don't. I can't have a cavity.
SPEAKER_00Now tell me this, if you we've gotta give credit to where credit is due. Has you the fact that you haven't had a cavity, obviously genes have got to be part of that. I don't know. Got nice strong teeth.
SPEAKER_01Uh well, I don't think that's the case.
SPEAKER_00But but I'm also assuming that you must be fantastic at dental hygiene.
SPEAKER_01Well, no. No. I'm the guy that she I go in and she goes, have you been flossing? I'm like, well, just this morning. Exactly. Because I knew I was coming. And that's why I think that they think my gums are always a little bit inflamed, because I hadn't flossed enough, but I did floss last night.
SPEAKER_00I want to come back to this flossing concept, but but if you don't believe it's genes, and if you don't believe it's good hygiene, what do you credit your lack of cave? Done luck. Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_01Can it not just be luck?
SPEAKER_00Maybe. Maybe maybe.
SPEAKER_01I do get my teeth get dirty and stained. I remember as like weird stained, like behind this is who wants to hear about this? But it like I'm a coffee drinker.
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_01But I'm not. I just remember coffee at seven or eight years old coming out of the doctor or dentist's office, and the dentist was just kind of flummoxed as what as to why a little a little kid would have that kind of stain on the back of his teeth. And I remember sitting in the minivan and my mom's looking at me seriously and saying, David, have you been like drinking coffee or something? Mom, no. No, Jan, no. Where would I get something like that?
SPEAKER_00You're like a like a closet coffee drinker.
SPEAKER_01And apparently at seven years old out of a sippy cup.
SPEAKER_00The the there's an interesting study that I would like to do because I love to go to the dentist. Absolutely love it. No, it's not.
SPEAKER_01I like my dentist too, but I'm always tense in the chair. I wish I could just relax.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's that's where the nitrous comes in. Um but I love the dentist, and I always find but I'm not a very good flosser. I brush nine morning and occasionally middle of the day. I don't mind brushing. I'm a sonic, uh I feel like we should be getting like a some affiliate marketing for these sonic toothbrushes because I'm a big fan of them. But I don't I don't floss like I should. And so my question to you, Dave, is like, do you think in order for the dentist to believe that you floss all the time, do you think you need to floss just the morning of, or what if you floss just the week before your appointment? Do you think that would constitute the facade to fake it? The fake it, to say, oh yeah, I can tell you've been flossing every day since you were here last.
SPEAKER_01That's probably a a question to ask Kelda for sure. You ask her. I'm gonna ask her. First of all, I'm gonna go in and she's gonna look at me and Dr. Cameron's gonna look at me and they're gonna go, it was a cavity. And I'm gonna say, No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. Let's let's rethink that. And you I think that if you flossed like the couple days before, your gums will be what do they call it?
SPEAKER_00Inflamed?
SPEAKER_01I don't know what it is. Like irritated? Yeah, they'll be more red and they'll look like they're maybe having issues. But if if you were to do it maybe the month or so before and stay consistent on it, maybe they wouldn't see it.
SPEAKER_00Then so so the point being is that, and I realize that we're just talking about dentists, and and we're so grateful for those guys at Aspen Dental to do the service, but we're trying to say, how little can I floss to still get away with it? That's probably not what they're looking for. That's not what they're looking for. Or maybe they are.
SPEAKER_01Hey man, if you're gonna do that, it's opportunities, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um, I um I grew up going to the dentist every six months. My mom was just a champion about that. She would take us every six months, and I'll and there's not a dentist in Grass Creek, though. No, no, no. We had to travel, we had to travel, hour and a half, to uh actually a little town called Paul, Idaho, just across the border, in the Burley area. Um Dr. Ennis was his name. And uh he was a fantastic dentist. In fact, he was so good that even I graduated from high school, I came to college, I would still drive every six months, which is about a two-hour drive from here. I'd drive every six months to keep my dental appointment with him. Now when he retired, I thought, Jason, you gotta just let it go and find a local dentist. And I and I've got a great one here, love him absolutely. But I remember going to the dentist a little while ago, maybe it's been a year or so, and they said, Oh, you must have had popcorn last night. And I and of course I said, No, no, I don't think so. And then then, and then the sweet hygienist, she's like, Well then probably the day before that, and I was like, No. Now finally it clicked. I'm like, Jason, just say I couldn't remember when I had it. So it could have been in there for months. Oh my gosh. But I must have like super strong teeth because I have had very limited cavities, which is which is awesome. But again, you mentioned it earlier, all growing up though, my dentist, he didn't offer the uh the uh I always call it the laughing gas, funny gas, you know. And when I married Heather, I started going to her dentist. That's who I still go to, and he's got it, and I remember walking in one time, I knew I had to come in because he was gonna treat a cavity. And I said, Hey, how's it going? He's like, good, good on. He put me in this room, and I I know the I mean I know the office. And I'm like, there's no tanks in here. I don't this isn't the normal room I'm comfortable with. And I was like, hey, um, is this procedure gonna require the gas? You're hoping. I'm hoping. And he's like, Do you want it? I'm like, yeah. He's like, change rooms, I do love it, but I I find myself uh now I'm not making fun of it. I listen, you know, you can't be getting high on dentist gas, but it's just like so relaxing when you get in.
SPEAKER_01I see, I don't even know. I have never had the gas. And I'm frankly, I'm a little scared of things like that. When you haven't had a I don't know what it'll do to me. Well, I'll probably be the one guy that's like bouncing off the walls with it.
SPEAKER_00Well, I would say at least try it once. Maybe take a designated driver with you. Just try it once. Did you you had your did you have wisdom teeth to have pulled out?
SPEAKER_01I did, but I had to go underneath the knife for that. So did I. Well, I went under. Yeah. I bet you dentists have the funniest stories. Oh, I'm sure. For people waking up from that. I remember waking up sitting, I not in the office. I woke up briefly in front of Juniper Takeout here in Logan.
SPEAKER_02Weird.
SPEAKER_01And then I went out again. Okay. And then I woke up again walking down the stairs at my mom and dad's house, and then I went out again. You don't even know how you got from place to place. No, I don't take well to anesthesia. Do you know that? I'm like a baby. I'll throw up. The whole thing. I and I was down for the count after those wisdom teeth for days. That seems unfortunate. I know, and now this is back in high school, and Susie and I were dating at the time, and I don't know why I got roped into taking or going to pick her up from getting her wisdom teeth. It must have been love, man. Because she had gauze, bloody gauze hanging out of her face. Sick. Sick. Sick.
SPEAKER_00So I took her home. Okay. And she was playing tennis that night. Well, I went to a dance the night that I got my uh Oh, I'm soft, aren't I? Yeah, you are kind of. I don't want to be, but I think I am. I no, I it's that that was the only uh time that I that I've had, you know, well wait, no. Tonsils, but the only time I've had surgery, so to speak, you know, to get to get those those uh wisdom teeth out. But but I uh I messed fine. Um I it is it is interesting. I've tried to keep the same pattern with my girls as well. I want to get them to the dentist. Now they oh I don't want to embarrass them, but um they don't have great teeth. Yeah, they don't have to be a lot of things. And it's always fun to embarrass your children. There's gonna be a whole podcast on We need to. We embarrass them and they embarrass them. Well, they don't embarrass us, but you know. Well, I don't know. We can probably look back on that. But um Kennedy, she has probably had in fact I know she has more cavities than she has teeth. Whoa! Yeah, it's a lot of cavity. How do you have multiple cavity cavities on one tooth? Yeah, exactly. I didn't even know that was possible. I didn't either, but I tell you what, she was, those are all of her baby tooth, which we call it her practice teeth. You know we're gonna get better. We're gonna get better. But she would get so nervous about going to the dentist, and again, he was just so good and so kind to her, but we actually gave her I don't know what the proper terminology is, but like laughing gas in a liquid form an hour before she got there to just relax her. I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah, it was actually. Is it all called vodka? Kind of, yeah. It's like a little hot toddy. It's like but we would give her this this it was a prescription, and we take her to the dentist office, and it's so funny. Um, and and I keep referencing this, and we are going to put some of these things up on Instagram because Heather, Heather's such a good parent. Kennedy is basically drunk on this stuff. She can't hardly even walk. She falls right over in the dentist, and she's like, I'll talk and slurred her speech. She falls flat on her face. She was fine, she didn't get hurt. She's gonna be fine. We put her in the chair. Now, mind you, she was uh, you know, three or four years old at the time. We put her in the chair, and then and she's just completely relaxed. We look down, oh, she feed her pants in the dentist chair. I'm sure they've seen worse. Oh, yeah. I mean, they're just so, so relaxed.
SPEAKER_01You know, I bet when they have the little tools to clean my teeth, it makes my nose itch so bad. Wait, you know, like just the the the brush and the little the little hook and stuff that I'm sure those are the technical the brush and the hook. The brush and the hook when they use those. That that tickles my nose so bad that I have to kind of push Kilda out of the way every once in a while and can't do one of these and itch my nose. Yeah. I wonder if anybody's ever sneezed while people are working in their mouth.
SPEAKER_00I would assume that that would have that's a great question. And let's let's I'm now I'm gonna start writing questions for my dentist because I've had the similar thoughts. Like I'll I'll be on the funny gas, he'll be working in there, and he's got a TV on the ceiling, which is super awesome, I think. Yeah, and I I always usually just turn it to like Comedy Central or something. I don't know what's on in the middle of the day, days of our lives, but yeah, but I can remember sitting there again feeling good on the gas, and the there's a trick about receiving the gas, so gives you the gas and then he gives you a shot. But as much as I love the dentist, I hate pain. And so he'll come in about 10 minutes later and say, Hey, how's that gas? You feeling good? Is it not? Is it numbing up? And I'm and in my mind, with all the concentration that I have, I say something like, you know, oh oh, is it on? I don't even feel it. Did you give it to me? Did you give me a shot? Maybe another one. It probably comes out like, huh? I don't even feel it. Is it on? In your mind, you've just dictated everything perfectly because I always communicate it at all. That I'm I need to be numb from like basically my throat to the crown of my head. If you're gonna be drilling in there. So you're just slobbering, yeah. I don't know, maybe I don't have enough. He's like, you gotta know. Breathe in deep and just collapse that bag of gas. I mean, I just I absolutely love it. Um have you s going back to sneezing real quick. Oh, have you ever sneezed laying in bed at night? It hurts. Yeah, it's not good. You almost I feel like now I kind of lean up and sneeze.
SPEAKER_01I I I mean, I sneezed in bed just recently, and I thought, uh I I'm too old to do that. I gotta get up. So I I almost threw my back out trying to sneeze in bed.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, there's a there's a whole lot of we could there's a whole lot that we need to unpack. And I want to talk. Can I can I just say one more thing? I I I don't mean to just talk about the dentist forever, but I got one more thing. Okay. You okay with this? Yes. But then maybe let's circle back to me sneezing and we're too old. Yeah, and in the tub. That's not good to use. That's dangerous. Uh along with the dentist, like, I was thinking I'm high in gas, and he's got like sharp tools in my mouth, and then I see something that's funny, and I'm already high in the gas, and I'm like, like, if you're laughing, it's too crazy. But um, as you know, Dave, as you look across the table from me, I am 44 years old and I have braces. Yeah, a grown man with braces. Grown man with braces, and I got a lot of gray in my beard as well. So I feel like there's like a an age battle on my face. The beard feels like I don't know, 60, and the braces are like 14. Um, but I got, you know, I could have had the option, I mean, I could have had braces. Again, I keep telling you, I went to the dentist every six months. My sister had him. My dentist never said that needed him. I was up, my brother-in-law is also a dentist. Well, maybe they did he did, but your parents are like, nah, he's fine. He'll be fine. You know, the rest of him is so beautiful. We'll have my help for him anyway. He'll be fine. His personality is not a chance to carry him through life. Um, but my brother-in-law Mark, he's a dentist, and Heather and I were up visiting him up in Corvallis, Oregon, and um, and he's like, hey, while you're here, just come in and let's have a look. I said, Okay, fair enough. That's I think that's what dentists do.
SPEAKER_01Is it just dentists? Say you're some, I don't know, a proctologist. Hey, come on and let's have a look. Let's go, let's go take a look. I don't think it's I don't think it's all people that practice medicine. I don't think so either. It's probably just the dentist. Probably just the dentist. Just do you a favor. Yeah. Well, like Aspen Dental. They're willing to have people come in and do this for free for them, which is insurance. The nicest thing ever. It's a big deal. I don't know that any proctologists are saying, Hey, let's come in, let's take a look.
SPEAKER_00Let's have a look. Let's just have a look. Hey, what do we got going on in there? Um, so one of Mark's sweet, sweet dental hygienists. She comes in and she's working, you know, cleaning the teeth, doing all that dental hygienists do, and then she puts her hand on my shoulder. She says to me, she says, Jason, you are a very handsome man. You know, when anybody starts a sentence like that, you know there's a big old comma, but and she says, You are a very handsome man. But have you ever thought of having any orthodontia work done?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I would have just stopped her. You're a very handsome man. Thank you. Stop there.
SPEAKER_00Let's just stop. Let's just stop there. But again, now let's I let's let's uh pivot back. To me sneezing in bed? Yeah, or the tub. It hurts.
SPEAKER_01Like I don't just sit up in the tub. You kind of lay back. You lounge in the tub. Yes. Now, first of all, most men right now are saying, what kind of man gets in the tub?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, give me your man card right now. Yeah, but it's I like it. He probably found like a like a meme or something on his Pinterest account. I don't I don't have Pinterest. Yeah, Brad Hatfield does. We're just gonna throw him right under the bus, Arjun. He's the one that threaded to take away with my man card because I always reference my Pinterest boards.
SPEAKER_01Well, I sometimes I would wonder about that too. I don't know that I mean I don't have any stock in Pinterest. I just don't know why a man would need to be on Pinterest. Well, I mean if you need to For your charcuterie boards anytime you need to come up with some crochet or some macro may or something. Maybe there's other stuff on the I don't know. I don't know. But I you know, lounging in the tub and you sneeze, that's trouble. I I've been I I almost threw my back out doing that and in my laying in my bed at night, water can go flying too in there. You it's a it's a convulsion.
SPEAKER_00And it's almost like when you sneeze. Have you ever even tried to sneeze while you're driving? Because you gotta keep your eyes open and it hurts and it's painful. But if you're sneezing in the bathtub, like I don't know, that's a fancy.
SPEAKER_01At least you're sitting up. At least you're sitting up in the car.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I think we sneeze in the car more than we realize. No, we realize that, but when you're in the tub, you're like controlling bodily functions in your face, which almost gives all the other functions a free pass.
SPEAKER_01Well, if you're if you're prone like that, if you're prone, I can see where you're coming from. And that's why your bat does weird things. I think in order for a grown man at our age to sneeze, you need to sit up and just lean into it. And lean into it.
SPEAKER_00And and don't try and hold it in. You can't be really relaxed when you sneeze, obviously. No, no.
SPEAKER_01You gotta kind of tune yourself a little bit.
SPEAKER_00Be aware for it. Yeah. Otherwise, you're gonna be able to do it. Almost like a real coach, more of like an athletic stance.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, get down, get down, get some balance, really let it out.
SPEAKER_00I've had similar issues. Um I don't know, I know the the time is getting away from us, so this could be a whole other podcast, but like I don't remember having a conversation when you know with my with my boys in high school about wow man, I sneezed in bed last night, and it really did me in.
SPEAKER_01I'm sure you didn't.
SPEAKER_00I'm sure it did me in.
SPEAKER_01I think in fact, this was probably the first.
SPEAKER_00First time ever. And you're 44 years old. How about uh that concept of like, oh, I had a great night's sleep, um, and and you think it's wonderful, and then you go to get out of bed, and you're like, hold your horses, buddy. It's gonna take some steps. Like, I gotta swing my feet off the side of the bed and just sit for a bit. Yeah. I can't just jump out of bed.
SPEAKER_01You'll get vertigo.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you'll get vertigo, and I'll probably throw my neck out for my back out. I mean everything. Pull a hammy. I've had vertigo recently.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's the worst. The when you know the band The Bare Naked Ladies? There's a song that they say something about Vertigo is so dangerous you'd have to sign a waiver. Oh, really? Yeah, go back and listen to it. I'll listen to it. It's fun. But, anyways, the root it's not just lightheaded. Like you're talking about getting out of bed, you can get a little lightheaded. Yeah. Vertigo, your whole world spins. It is nuts. I I've had it before, buddy, and it's horrible. It's scary, it's it kind of makes you nauseous. You gotta feel for the wall.
SPEAKER_00It's it makes you seasick, it's almost because your your world is spinning. And I know people who suffer from it like chronically. I can't imagine how pain how frustrating that would be. I remember driving in my truck one time, and this was this was actually long ago when I was uh in college. I headed home late one night, and I don't know if there were triggers for me or whatnot, but all of a sudden I got it traveling down the highway. I I had to pull over.
SPEAKER_01I can't imagine driving a car and having a bout of vertigo because literally the room, my whole room was spinning. Yeah. That would be you can't drive a car like that.
SPEAKER_00No, that's why you have to sign a wafer, I guess. It's um listen, these the thing that I love about these podcasts is they can go a million different directions. Yeah, they do. They do, and that's I listen, uh, if I may be so bold, I think that what makes them kind of fun. Well, I'd like to hope so. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But I don't think I was just gonna say, I didn't I would think that living in a town, a small town like Grouse Crip, you would actually have a traveling dentist. Like they carries a little black bag.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's kind of like you know, from from the movie which I've referenced before, Pete's Dragon. Yeah. You know, they the doctor with his snake oil and whatnot. Yeah. Showing up and has his tools, his hook and his brush. He's gonna say, let me take a look in there. Listen, I I know that Dr. Cameron Dental is not using a hook and a brush. It's what else you call it?
SPEAKER_01I I'm gonna need to figure out the right terminology because there's a hook and there's a brush, and they get the job done, and there's paste, there's there's there's all the things.
SPEAKER_00Sometimes when they put that fluoride trays in your mouth, that almost like kind of like a gag. Yeah, I don't love that. It's I don't like it. And then they say sometimes, now again, you're thinking because I love the dentist, but when they say, would you like to have bubblegum or cherry? I'd be like, none of the above. Uh do we really need to? I mean, you probably don't need to have fluoride because you never had a cavity in your whole life.
SPEAKER_01Do you know when I'm in the dentist chair, my toes are always crunched in my shoes. Just because you're tense. Yeah, I'm always tense. My hands are like, I try so hard, just relax. You're gonna be fine. Yes.
SPEAKER_00The next thing you know, I'm all tensed up again. Yeah. That's I think that's good though, because sometimes it gives uh your dentist again, you would never know because you never had a drill in your mouth. No. But if it's trying to get into like a sensitive spot, you kind of go like this, clench your hands, and like, ooh, sorry, did I get something? Yeah, yeah. They back off. So it's good. So I guess I've had I've had shots because I had to have the wisdom teeth out. Yeah, for sure, for sure. But a good dentist, like I'm gonna tell you, like, a lot of times I don't even know that a shot is happening. Oh. They put the numbing stuff up there first, and then my dentist, I love him. He I mean, I'm 44 years old, and I think he's still, which I appreciate, treats me a little younger, where he pulls a shot up, you know, from like kind of below where I can't see out of my vision, so I can't see that gigantic needle heading towards my mouth. Yeah. And then I don't even know it. What a good guy. I love him.
SPEAKER_01I think I think there's there's some really good people out there running dental offices, and uh they have to deal with guys like us.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Like, give me the gas, dog. Just just not to not to cut you off or anything, but like give us all the details again because that's kind of that's kind of a big deal.
SPEAKER_01Yes, this is absolutely a big deal. It's what they're calling a free dental day at Aspen Dental of Cash Valley. Remember, it's on November 13th of 2021. And the the the aim here is to help those in the community that don't have access to dental health or unable to afford these services. So it's it's a it's a really, really great cause. Um, one service will be provided per person. It can be a cleaning, it can be a filling or an extraction. The time is 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. It's first come, first served at Aspen Dental. They're located at 170 east, 1400 north. Just have a brand new office. It's um in by the the mall, just on the northeast side of the mall. They redid that building. It's beautiful. It is beautiful. They have done an excellent job in there. So 170 east, 1400 north in Logan, November 13th, anywhere between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., it's first come, first surf.
SPEAKER_00Now I don't know if they can do this or not, but I'm here to tell you they should use as your they should use you as your spokesman because they probably can't make promises like this. But if you come to us, you'll be like Dave and never have a cavity. Never have a cavity again. That's right.
SPEAKER_01Thanks again, folks, for listening to another episode of the Small Towns Podcast. We're pretty sure we've changed your life for the better. If not, well, we'll try again next time.