Dr. Rich N., DDS

Reasons I LOVE my dentist:

• he doesn't laugh, at least not too loud, when I have to wear my iPod full blast as he does fillings or root canals (I tell him I'm just going to my 'zone')
• he REALLY doesn't laugh when I grip the armrests so tightly with my hands my hands cramp and go white as he gives me the numbing shots, or when I have to kick a leg up in the air just to 'dance to the sound of the drill'
  
• his front desk secretary is super nice and makes me feel all warm and cozy about myself due to her fabulous compliments and never ending praise of me being ME
• he and I grew up in the same neighborhood in Holladay and so I know his family, he knows mine, and I am very comfortable around him
• This goes with the feeling comfortable around him: I had the biggest crush on him when I was 18 and he was the RM teaching my Sunday School class so it's nice to see him as an adult, married with four kids, and be able to tell him about the huge crush I, along with three of the other girls, had on him and not be embarrassed about it
• he genuinely cares about how I am doing and how my mom and brothers are doing

Reasons I DON'T love my dentist:

• when I go for my six month clean up, as I did today, shots are never supposed to be part of the visit
• if I am going to have my gums cut around the two stupid molars that cause me massive grief and require me to carry dental floss everywhere, at least provide some pain killers for when the novocaine WEARS OFF!
• don't tell me that other than the gums that had to be cut to provide growth, or whatever the 'H' the reason was, I have gorgeous teeth. Whatever! The pain tells me otherwise.
• he STILL hasn't come through with the financially stable, tall, dark and well educated spouse he is supposed to provide me with that I've been asking every six months for for three years! Come on buddy, I can't keep teaching forever!