- If no dentist wears gloves
and they're coming at you with a drill, run!
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My name is Theressa Eliscar.
- I'm Dr. Jennifer Reyes.
- I'm Dr. Lucente
and I will be rating films about dentistry.
- I would assume that there's probably gonna be
an exaggerated truth to what I see.
Let's get to it.
(drill whirling) (screaming)
- Rubber dam and clamp installed.
- Yep.
(man mumbling) (man shouting)
- Oh, he's using a Hedstrom file.
- Actually, that's really true.
We do use Hedstrom files for a root canal.
It's a special type of file
that helps us to get things out of the canal.
We don't just poke the file, though.
Usually, it's all the way down into the tooth
in order to get all of the nerve and blood vessels
and bacteria out of the tooth.
- Only thing that is inaccurate
is that it looks like the patient was able to rinse,
he didn't have a rubber dam and the clamp on.
But that is something you would definitely do
for a root canal.
- And usually dentists don't keep their window open
wide enough where a pelican can fly in.
- I would say Finding Nemo, fairly accurate.
(drill buzzing)
- Can I get a little Novocain there, doc?
(groaning)
- The dentist doesn't have a mask on,
doesn't have any gloves on.
- We don't put the syringe up like this.
We usually try to keep it out of vision.
- We usually use some topical gel
before we even use anesthesia,
just to alleviate some of that pain.
- I just wanted to say there's a lot of good friends
of Bill Willoughby in this town, Mrs. H, no!
Ow, stop, no ow!
(shouting)
- You have some things just like diamond coated
that's really hard and it's moving
400,000 revolutions per minute,
so it absolutely can pierce through your nail.
That is one reason why you shouldn't move
because if this can do that to someone's finger,
it can cut your face, it can cut your cheek
or your tongue.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,
accurate that yes, a dental drill can be very, very harmful.
What's inaccurate is,
that the dentist didn't wash his hands,
he wasn't gloved, just the way that he was holding
the handpiece was also incorrect.
(patient screaming) (upbeat music)
- Most equipment does not look like that.
That looked like piercing, tattoo stuff.
- Looks like he has brass knuckles?
Sometimes they do go back to some of the older instruments
that were used early 1900s,
but it still really doesn't look like that.
- I don't even know what he's trying to do.
He looks like he's trying to take out a tooth
and then now he's drilling.
- And we don't wear cooking aprons.
Oh, so much is wrong here.
Little Shop of Horrors,
oh no, nothing is true there.
- Are you a grinder?
Do you grind your teeth?
- I grind it all night, (growling).
(lady laughing)
- Laughing gas,
most of the time it doesn't make you laugh like this.
Actually, more relaxed.
Most of the time, patients are not talking
while they're getting laughing gas.
- Turn it up.
- No, we're gonna turn it down.
- Turn it up (laughing).
- She's asking to turn the gas up
and I feel like that's fairly accurate.
Who doesn't wanna be more relaxed
when they're at the dentist's office?
- This Is 40, half true.
The whole set up and the way everything looks,
he was actually wearing gloves,
but in terms of hysterically laughing,
I haven't experienced that.
(moaning)
- Yeah, that one's gonna have to be filled.
- I always have Final Destination moments, though,
when I'm at the office.
If someone doesn't sit on the seat properly.
- [Dentist] Wider.
- I usually try not to show the patient the needle
before I inject them.
'Cause the needle's like this long and it's scary.
(drill buzzing)
- Usually if we're drilling
and we notice that the patient is wincing their face
or a tear drop is coming down,
that's our indication that, that the patient is in pain.
We're gonna stop, say, are you feeling this?
Are you in any discomfort or pain?
- There's like some smoke that's coming up
that's really not accurate,
especially if there's water running.
Usually that will help to cool everything down.
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- And the oxygen tank is running out.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, no, that doesn't happen.
We definitely monitor it.
Usually, there is a dental assistant in the room
that's monitoring the nitrous and the oxide levels.
The patient is just getting just nitrous right now.
That is not good.
That can cause you to convulse, you could vomit.
You can literally die.
(tense music)
Ooh.
For Final Destination Two, none of that is true.
It's just way, way, way too out of pocket.
It's just dramatic (laughing).
So, hopefully, this helps you out
for the next time you go to the movie
and see a dentist office.
Half of it's not true.
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