Because they know a lot of people are afraid of going to the dentist. They aren't idiots, they know you can't respond, but having someone talking conversationally with you is a lot more relaxing than a voiceless masked person with sharp tools doing shit you can't see to your mouth.
Maybe they want you to think about what to reply even though you can't really do it. It makes you focus on what the dentist actually says and helps to take your mind off of what the madman is doing to your poor teeth. At least it helps in my case.Then why do they always phrase their words like it's something they expect you to reply to? That's the part that gets me.
Maybe they want you to think about what to reply even though you can't really do it. It makes you focus on what the dentist actually says and helps to take your mind off of what the madman is doing to your poor teeth. At least it helps in my case.
Human habbit, I suppose. It's kind of like how hairdressers are usually chatty, we like to get to know people we interact with. I don't really have a reason why they ask questions when your mouth is full of tools and polishing paste, it's just something all dentists do.
its to build therapeutic rapportI didn't expect anyone to have a good answer, honestly.
I'm just a bit rant-y.
Maybe they want you to think about what to reply even though you can't really do it. It makes you focus on what the dentist actually says and helps to take your mind off of what the madman is doing to your poor teeth. At least it helps in my case.
Then you gotta wrestle the dentist off of you, spit those nasty tools out of your mouth and give your damn answer no matter what happens.Ahhh but what if you really want to reply?
What if your dentist is a whovian, and sees some Doctor Who pins that you're wearing and says something about how the show was so different "in his day" and you just really wanna say something about how you watch the Classics, too. But you can't.
This actually happened to me once.