Why don’t they put something on the ceiling above dental chairs for when patients are leaned back and getting their mouth poked and proded at?

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A TV might be ambitious. But a word search? A search and find? Something to keep me from making awkward eye contact with my dentist, or distracted from the unpleasant feeling of my teeth being scraped! Why don’t they?

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  1. BrokenAglet Avatar

    They do depending on the establishment.

  2. hurryuplilacs Avatar

    Many dentists who specialize in pediatrics do. Both of the ones my kids have gone to have a TV above the dental chairs. The last time they went they were pretty excited about seeing the Wild Robot!

  3. CheeseburgerBrown Avatar

    Well, they do put all those wee holes in the ceiling tiles. You can make a counting game of it, I reckon.

  4. 950k Avatar

    Mine has a TV up there that clients get the remote to. Find a better dental facility 

  5. Full_Molasses_9050 Avatar

    My dentist has had a TV in the ceiling for at least 15 years.

  6. Ok-Bee1579 Avatar

    I had a dentist who did have a poster (all of the animals from Noah’s Ark) up there. It didn’t help b/c he was still a lousy dentist.

    My new dentist has TV’s. Not on the ceiling. I’ve never used them. Instead, I listen to funny podcasts. And I wear dark sunglasses (to protect from the bright light). Just close my eyes, and they can’t tell.

  7. Warm-Day8313 Avatar

    Before tvs were put on the ceiling my old dentist put printed cartoons on the ceiling.

  8. Spiritual_Lemonade Avatar

    I haven’t been to a dentist in at least 7 years that didn’t have a flat screen hanging right there. And I get the remote and headphones.

    I literally won’t go to the dentist without as the drill going nearby is just 😵‍💫

    Even the kids dentist has this 

  9. blackbellamy Avatar

    I keep my eyes closed at the dentist.

  10. Astramancer_ Avatar

    >A TV might be ambitious.

    When I was a kid my dentist had a TV mounted in the ceiling. And this was CRT days, so those TVs probably weighed 30 pounds. A modern TV is peanuts compared to that. My 70″ TV weighs less than my 32″ in college weighed.

    It was also pretty useless. The dentist will be blocking your vision most of the time as they scoot around your head to get the angles they need and you can’t really hear anything.

  11. refugefirstmate Avatar

    My dentist has a TV in every room, right at the level you’d need if you were fully reclined. Also pics on the ceiling.

  12. dyn-dyn-dyn Avatar

    Mine has a birds eye photo of the town he’s in

  13. True_Fill9440 Avatar

    I’m photosensitive so I wear a sleep mask.

  14. Hollipoppppp Avatar

    My childhood dentist had pics of the various stages of gingivitis on the ceiling lol.
    My current dentist has a tv in each room always set to hgtv.

  15. Independent_Being704 Avatar

    They do. I remember when I was kid they had scooby doo playing on the TV 😅 That’s a core memory for me

  16. Mermaidlife97 Avatar

    Mine has tv in front of you on wall and on the ceiling.

  17. snootyworms Avatar

    They did this to Jerma and he had to watch turtles screwing during a nature documentary while the dentist was working on him.

    Careful what you wish for or you too could be the protagonist of the stream clip I think of every few days and sensibly chuckle over.

  18. theFooMart Avatar

    The dentist I went to as a kid 30+ years ago had TVs in the ceiling. And this was in a small town, so I assumed that if the small town dentist can do it then most dentists would.

  19. peebed Avatar

    Every dentist I have been to since childhood has had this

  20. LittleMissPeachy6 Avatar

    One of my dentists had a picture of Tom Selleck on the ceiling.

  21. fudge_monkies Avatar

    Mine still has one of those cheesy pictures meant to calm you, but really only induces eye rolling.

  22. ExtraSalty0 Avatar

    My dentist takes out the panel in front of the ceiling light and puts a panel that has a picture of a cloud.

  23. FlatDiscussion4649 Avatar

    I suggested this to a dentist many years ago and about 6 months later…. there it was.

  24. shakeyshake1 Avatar

    Mine had postcards that had animals and puns about dental hygiene stuck under the frame of the drop ceiling.

    My dentist just retired. I actually had the same dentist for like 32 years (since I was a kid). I’m pretty sure the same postcards were there the entire time and every few years, a new one would get added.

  25. uvaspina1 Avatar

    Just listen to your earbuds/airpods? That’s what they do at my dentist office (with gas 10/10)

  26. 96ewok Avatar

    All my dentists had TVs in the ceilings.

  27. HappySummerBreeze Avatar

    They do? All my dentists have a tv, and when they’re using the camera in my mouth they switch it to show on the screen so he can display whatever tooth problem he’s talking about

  28. king-of-new_york Avatar

    Mine does, but to be fair I still went to a pediatric dentist until two years ago.

  29. penalty-venture Avatar

    When I was a kid they stuck vinyl butterflies up there. I have no idea why, but I harbored some hatred toward those stupid butterflies. Maybe because they were less visually interesting than the decorative holes in the drop-ceiling tiles?

  30. ExpiredExasperation Avatar

    Mine have had TVs and print-outs with brainteasers.

  31. IAlwaysSayBoo-urns Avatar

    Really? I’ve never seen one without a TV. That goes back to my childhood in the early 90s when it was a 100 lbs CRT TV dangling above the chair. 

  32. Ok-Equivalent8260 Avatar

    Most dentists have tvs up there because they put movies in for the kids

  33. Usual_Judge_7689 Avatar

    When I was a kid, my dentist had a SNES to play with Super Mario World. That was pretty rad, since I didn’t have one at home, or any friends who had one

  34. kookapo Avatar

    My dentist has tvs that play Netflix (of your choice) over every chair.