The emergency room was more like 'Ok, you've been here for 4 hours, pouring blood out the mouth, cheek and chin ripped off the jawbone and still pouring blood, well here's a plastic tray to spit blood in, you can go home now'.

(america) thank you, that will be one billion dollars please

Someone needs to floss more.

Oh I wish my parents would have sued the fuck out of them when that happened, but I was only 16, and apparently my dad didn't think it was important enough, as insurance still covered it, a week later, at a very late oral surgeon appointment.

What? Sink?

Where's the suction thingy?

Check my other comments here if you haven't already.

I probably should have just spit the blood on the floor right there in the ER, it might have caught their attention to just how much blood I was losing after the bike accident.

As I was leaving though, I spit the blood in my mouth and emptied the blood tray on their pavement on the way to the car. I really should have done that inside the hospital, because they should have stitched me up right then and there.

Edit: I also spent the next month or so, waking up with my head stuck to my pillow, from dried blood still leaking from my mouth.

Gnarly scars yo.

Older dentist chairs had spitting sinks and were generally more terrifying.

Maybe some new ones do too. You also need an assistant to operate suction if you’re going that route.

The ones I’ve been to, they just hand you the tool and you do the suction yourself

Let that sink in.

Older dentist chairs had them, and dentists in developing countries still use them. Sip water from a cup, swish it around your mouth, then spit in the small sink. There’s also a small faucet to refill the cup. Always had to do that as a kid when visiting the dentist.

What ? How do you do things in the west then ?

They spray water into your mouth and use a suction tube to remove the water. It does help I think for stuff life fillings because you don’t want water to contaminate the material before it dries out, or get water inside the tooth before it’s sealed. But yeah, you don’t get the satisfaction of being able to wash your mouth.

If the dentist needs the moral support from my interpretive dancing to get in my mouth, there are larger problems to address.

I hate the current dental setup in the US. They lay you down absolutely flat.Then, they spray water in your mouth, and they never keep up with the suction, and you feel like you're being waterboarded, because you are being waterboarded.

I've gone my entire life never being afraid of the dentist. Even as a child, I wasn't afraid of the dentist. And now I'm afraid of the dentist.

The dentists act like it's a huge deal if you tell them you can't lay all the way completely flat on your back. That's the most vulnerable position to be in while somebody's looming over you and waterboarding you.

I'm trying to figure out if they're doing it on purpose to try to torture us and make us more submissive, I wouldn't put it past America at this point, our leaders have become so evil. We're probably going to find out in like twenty years that this was a psy op to torture Americans and see how we would respond.

Just to be clear, I don't think the dentists are the ones doing this. I think that they're being taught to do it this way, and manufacturers are making these new tables.

Thanks for the explanation ! I have personally never seen anything like this.

Go touch grass please

At least in my expierience, a fair few dentists have both. They have the suction tube for when they have something inside your mouth, but they also have a sink for you to spit into while they are doing something else, like updating your chart, or getting the tools prepared.

Having just been to a miserable deep cleaning, there was a lot of blood. So much. Not their fault.

Sitting next to that artwork while getting poked in the gums with needles and drills going into your teeth is just as terrifying as that torture chair.

Itodori, you really need to floss more.

Telling people to go touch grass is the new way to tell people to shut up. No thanks. I won't shut up.

This is a fucked up conspiracy theory