But "if it means preventing a child from having to be sedated or having their tooth drilled and filled, there are many parents who choose S.D.F.," she added.
WASHINGTON — Emily Strzelecki, a first-year science teacher here, was about as eager for a classroom visit by one of the city's roving teacher evaluators as she would be to get a tooth drilled.
For example, we might say that having a tooth drilled by a dentist is not in our interests while we are undergoing the procedure, even though it is in our long-term interests.
We get our first high-speed electric drill in 1911, but it really wasn't until the 1950s that "tooth drilling" came of age.
Most negative items were related to tooth drilling, giving that it had long been listed as one of the most fear provoking items in dental office [ 45, 46].
This analysis revealed that the third item ("If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel?") had an intra-class correlation of 0.51 (95% CI = -0.03 – 0.77); there were no other items for which the confidence interval included zero.
Although the item analysis of the Spanish MDAS indicated that all five items were measuring the same construct, the comparison of each item across both administrations indicated that one item ("If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel?") was not answered consistently, contributing to the lower test-retest value.
"They'd rather have their teeth drilled".
As an Uruguayan is relieved of two fifteenth-century crosses, a Washington-bound American has one of his teeth drilled to remove a tiny statuette hidden inside.
A candy lover and a sloppy brusher, I spent lots of after-school time at the dentist's office, inhaling the clove-scented air and getting my teeth drilled.
Users can hover over an emoji next to a name to get an idea of what an employee is up to — such as getting their teeth drilled at a dentist or out at a retreat.
