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?
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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They do depending on the establishment.
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!
Well, they do put all those wee holes in the ceiling tiles. You can make a counting game of it, I reckon.
Mine has a TV up there that clients get the remote to. Find a better dental facility
My dentist has had a TV in the ceiling for at least 15 years.
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.
Before tvs were put on the ceiling my old dentist put printed cartoons on the ceiling.
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
I keep my eyes closed at the dentist.
>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.
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.
Mine has a birds eye photo of the town he’s in
I’m photosensitive so I wear a sleep mask.
Mine has tvs.
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.
They do. I remember when I was kid they had scooby doo playing on the TV 😅 That’s a core memory for me
Mine has tv in front of you on wall and on the ceiling.
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.
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.
Every dentist I have been to since childhood has had this
One of my dentists had a picture of Tom Selleck on the ceiling.
Mine still has one of those cheesy pictures meant to calm you, but really only induces eye rolling.
My dentist takes out the panel in front of the ceiling light and puts a panel that has a picture of a cloud.
I suggested this to a dentist many years ago and about 6 months later…. there it was.
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.
Just listen to your earbuds/airpods? That’s what they do at my dentist office (with gas 10/10)
All my dentists had TVs in the ceilings.
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
Mine does, but to be fair I still went to a pediatric dentist until two years ago.
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?
Mine have had TVs and print-outs with brainteasers.
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.
Most dentists have tvs up there because they put movies in for the kids
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
My dentist has tvs that play Netflix (of your choice) over every chair.