{"id":3599,"date":"2019-08-06T23:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2019-08-07T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:56:14","slug":"dds-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/08\/06\/dds-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"DDS Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a secret&#8211;it\u2019s not about the pain. Rather, it\u2019s about prolonging the discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>I like to let the saliva build. Oh, you need suction? Sorry, it hadn\u2019t occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>Pinching gums with the film is also a winner (hope you don\u2019t have gingivitis!), as is leaving impression compound in too long (can you feel it hardening?).<\/p>\n<p>But the all-time best: we exchange pleasantries, and once my hands are in your mouth I start the questions. The mask covers my smile. But look closely, ever so closely\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and you might just catch when my eyes roll back.<br \/>\nMmmmmm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Jeff H.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff is a high school English teacher. He blogs at https:\/\/batchandnarrative.com\/ with his wife, a dietitian, about writing, food, and everything else.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a secret&#8211;it\u2019s not about the pain. Rather, it\u2019s about prolonging the discomfort. I like to let the saliva build. Oh, you need suction? Sorry, it hadn\u2019t occurred to me. Pinching gums with the film is also a winner (hope you don\u2019t have gingivitis!), as is leaving impression compound in too long (can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8088,2833,8082,78,8083,2720,3776,8086,41,8085,2927,8087,8081,1850,2212,1504,8089,1876,2711,519,1821,8084,2756,5261],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-compound","tag-confession","tag-dds","tag-dentist","tag-discomfort","tag-eyes","tag-film","tag-gingivitis","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gums","tag-hands","tag-impression","tag-jeff-h","tag-mask","tag-mouth","tag-pain","tag-pleasantries","tag-questions","tag-saliva","tag-secret","tag-smile","tag-suction","tag-the-best","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}