A Visit to the Dentist

I've often seen people saying in various forums about going to their Dentist and receiving more than just a pain in the mouth. These people after telling their Dentist about their hobby, have asked if they could have any old (and sterile!) tools they might be on the verge of throwing out. Typically they claim to have received an assortment of picks and other things.

On Monday I had a regularly scheduled cleaning at my long time Dentist.  At the end of my appointment after he did his checkup I told I had an odd question for him. I explained about my hobby of modeling trains and if he had any old picks or other tools that I might have. I also noticed they weren't very busy so I felt my timing might be good for this kind of request.

He thought that was pretty neat and said he'd be glad to help. We looked all over and scrounged up a good handful of old tools. Even one of his hygienists volunteered some old picks that were broken on one side.

In the end I had an odd assortment of tools that I'll find good use for with soldering, scribing and other possible modeling activities. A big thanks to my Dentist and his staff!

The bounty of new modeling tools.

One of the tools I received is involved in doing Root Canals. The photo below shows this particular tool in all of its long pointy horror. I've had a few Root Canals done and I'm not sure I needed to know what tools were inserted into my open tooth.... Some things are best left unknown.

Holy %$&*