It is unbelievable how much my faith in the necessity of dental procedures has risen after I started going to see a dentist that was my friend first, and my dentist only later (after I got tired of constantly wondering if the others actually had my best interests at heart).

I never doubted the dentist I had during my youth, and as far as I know he’s actually just really good at his job, so it was kind of a shock to find that so many of them are just winging it.