8 Things Learnt at the Dentist

4. Not everything you read on the internet is true. WHAT? THIS GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING WE'VE EVER KNOWN. But alas, the internet is full of falseness. This is hard for us to accept seeing as our lives and jobs make us slaves to the world wide web, but we did a little Googling pre-teeth-whitening session to try and understand the experience. The web was full of reviews, everything from it was the most painful experience in the history of life, to it didn’t even work, to "it tickled." Mostly, none of it was true. Our experience, and this is just one person's account at one clinic, was as follows: Dr. Shady walked us through everything, which was helpful. None of it was painful – the whole a3da is kind of relaxing actually – but you do get a strange sensation occasionally when the blue light is doing its thing on your teeth, kind of like you ate ice cream too fast. And it does work – we left Perfect Smile Dental Center with perfect pearly white teeth. Everyone's experience is different but the point is, don’t believe all watchu see on the interwebz. 

5. Coffee and cigarettes are really bad for your teeth. Ok so we knew this one already but it was reiterated to us by Dr. Shady. On the first day, when we did a cleaning, he said this was just to get the general coffee and ciggie stains off your teeth, and return them to their natural colour, before the actual Zoom whitening machine. Already our teeth were like a shade whiter once the cleaning was finished, proof of the damage our pack-a-day habit has wreaked on our teeth. After the actual Zoom whitening situation, you're also not allowed to smoke for 48 hours. They were the toughest 48 hours of our lives, but totally worth it for the perfect white teeth we got as a final result.

6. Freakishly white teeth are not a legitimate worry – at least when it comes to the Zoom whitening that Perfect Smile Dental offers. We were slightly terrified it might turn into a Ross's-glow-in-the-dark-teeth kind of situation or just look terrifically fake, but the outcome was literally, perfect. They were a natural shade of white; as in people who know you will see the difference, but a stranger will just think you have beautiful teeth.

7. No matter how old you are, when the dentist tells you you're brave and you're doing so well, you feel SO SPECIAL. Doesn’t matter if you, like us, are doing a procedure that's entirely painless to being with, like the Zoom tooth whitening is, if he tells you you're the bravest patient he's got then goddamit you feel like the bravest little kid in the world. "Kid." You're 28. Dr. Shady would at regular intervals tell us how good we were doing and that we were such great patients, and we would just flush with pride even though, like, we were just lying there and having blue light shined on our teeth…

8. Even the dentist's office is Instagrammable. Suffering from social media addiction as we are, we never miss a chance to whip out our camera phone and snap some Instapics! And you can totally find Instagrammable instants at the dentist; you lying on the chair, the cool little blue glass pot he keeps the gel in, your reflection in the tooth-shaped mirror… you get the picture.

Thank you Dr. Shady Samir and your Perfect Smile Dental Clinic for teaching us some very valuable life lessons. We emerged with jealousy-inducing Hollywood smiles, we spent days receiving compliments, and we're on our way to learn sign language right now. Unfortunately we'll be back to cigarettes in no time...