Living La Vida’lerta – No Fillings Today Mum!

Just before meltdown we decided it might be best if we each cancelled all our six monthly dental check ups and scrape and polishes.

We had no idea as to when we might be able to rebook, but last week Nigel was the first to “get the call” to say they were back in business and would he like to come on down and show them his molars as they’d missed them!  Well, it would have been rude not to wouldn’t it? 

At the appointed time he was to arrive in his mask (not in evidence in the above picture, sorry) and ring the bell, where he would be met by a member of staff, to have his temperature taken and asked if he had any Covid 19 history, symptoms or recent contact with anyone who had.  Then, at the appointed hour he was allowed in to sanitise in an empty and very quiet, (no audible drilling sounds), waiting room, he said it made him feel a tiny bit exclusive but also a little bit spooky, like there had been a Zombie Acropolis!

Needless to say Nigel’s mouth, as expected, was given a full bill of health, so they’ll see him again in six months time.  His only regret was that the huge bowl of free toothpaste samples that he likes to plunder for holidays and weekends away wasn’t anymore, either because they knew he was coming or more likely, to prevent the cross pollination of patients, perhaps next time Nigel, just in time for the New Year!!!