As a dentist the thing I hate most is when a patient licks my gloved fingers when I am working in their mouth. 😟

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That has never, ever crossed my mind before. Fuck, I’m going to remeber this next time….

Do I maintain eye contact while licking?

That would make it infinitely worse.

🀒 I very much prefer my patients anesthetized

#fingstr origin story right here

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Do you mean like....

Aggressively licking your finger the whole time..

Or just happen to glance it as an involuntary reaction....

Aggressively licking. Think like when you bite your cheek and lick it to feel where you bit.

I have a few older patients who have developed involuntary tongue trusts or lip licking, that doesn’t gross me out.

Uhg. Why

Omg lol πŸ˜‚

I’m mainly just trying not to gag while you guys are aggressively finger banging my mouth lol πŸ˜‚

HODL jumps in to immediately defend licking dentists' fingers πŸ˜‚

We all know HODL... we all know.

I’m with #[3]​ on this one. It’s torture and a licked finger is the lesser of the assaults. πŸ˜‚

My fingers my choice.

Okay.

I decide what gets licked inside my own mouth goddammit πŸ˜‚

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🀣 Now I know how to get the dentist to hurry the fuck up cause my jaw is sore

I have numbing throat spray for complainers like you.

Lol I’d prefer the nitrous please and thank you

it’s a high stress situation ok?! WE ARE TRYING.

That’s just a complete violation, if not assault.

..are they gloves with flavor? πŸ‘…πŸ’¦πŸ€£

Do people do this on purpose?

Why have I read this 🀣 I’m going to the dentist tomorrow πŸ₯²

Does that happen often?

No, but one of the two offenders in my practice was in today.

Still sounds awful 😞

That saliva sucker is quite the technology I must say. Close your mouth and your nostrils cavitates

Uhh! I have grown up in the dental world & none of my family or friends have ever told me a about this strangeness. That's gross.

πŸ˜‚ i’m def showing this to my wife when i get home and asking if patients do that to her

Maybe the line "it's finger licking good" plays around πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

And, just like that, the DDS now makes sense. I've been wracking my brain about it.

I try to not do this and end up water boarding myself with saliva