Long Hygienist Poems

I have the dentist blues
I have them bad
Have to go to the dentist
For my twice yearly torture session

In order to save my remaining teeth
I must endure the never ending pain

I have the dentist blues
I have...

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In the middle of the room stood the white metal chair
   Designed to deliver the best dental care,
But she stood there immobile, unable to move 
   Toward the object of torture...

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A Dream Trip to the Dentist

By Elton Camp

In the reception room you need not stay.
It would be so wrong to cause you delay.
We take patients only one in an hour
So to keep on time is...

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 Dedicated to a Dental Hygienist who cleaned my teeth while I was working at the Fair. She requested I write a poem for her and that she was related to the Hatfields and McCoys.

The...

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I come in for my check up. 
"Sit down and open wide." 
Now the time for truth. 
There is no place to hide. 

He peers into my mouth, 
small mirror in his hand. 
Poking here...

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I haven’t seen the dentist 
Since pre-Covid days, although
I’m finally feeling ready and
I called to tell him so.

I questioned the receptionist 
If he’d received his shot.
Her answer, most evasive, 
Let me know that he had...

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Words get lodged in teeth.
A dental hygienist
has actually extracted a few.

Like bats words hang
from the roof of my mouth,
their subsonic squeaks
jiggle its epiglottis
like a witch doctor’s rattle.

The optometrist wears her glasses
over the bridge of her...

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Words lodge in my teeth.
My dental hygienist
has actually extracted a few.


They hang like bats
from the roof of my mouth.
Their sub-sonic squeaks
jiggle my epiglottis
like a witch doctors rattle.

My optometrist
wears her glasses like lingerie
low on the bridge...

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The hygienist clucks her tongue
To get her point across.
My teeth will start to rot away
If I don't start to floss.

She pokes and prods; she sands and scrapes
And all the while she lectures.
"A sonic toothbrush you...

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