Comment on Brushing teeth before going to the dentist has the same motivator as shaving pubes before going to the gynecologist: If someone's going to be looking inside there, you want it to look nice.

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, I schedule my dentist appointments at the end of my work day. So I guess I’m a sociopath.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can take a toothbrush to work...

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• Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I go to the dermatologist every six months and they have to look at my entire body every time, I take extra care to be clean and smell neutral or faintly nice. Unless that one time I had to go by bike bugy that was outside my control. I feel pretty self conscious at those times.

  Same goes for the dentist, I take extra care weeks in advance when I know an appointment is coming up. If you have stuff in between your teeth a brush won’t reach, one quick brush before the appointment has as much effect as taking a breath mint.

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• FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why? I’m paying for them to do it. You don’t crank one out before getting a happy ending.

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  • TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think a closer analogy would be more like “I don’t shower before I ask a hooker to tongue blast my fudge machine”

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    • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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