pot and yur dentist...

who cares lol. nobodys gotta be perfect.

no dentists has ever said anything to me about smoking, and my teeth have pretty bad stains on them. I always make sure i dont smoke for at least a couple of hours before going though, poking around in someones mouth is a pretty nasty job anyway without making it worse.

Shhhhh don't tell anyone but I am a student dentist. (I've said too much!)

Yes, the smoke will stain your teeth like cigarette smoke, but also likely is that your gum tissues are irritated from the heat of the smoke. So unless you are a weed hog, it's more likely the gums than the teeth that are showing it. Also if you eat a lot of sweets or drink sodas when you get the munchies then you might get more cavities.

Here's something important though -- if you smoke in the couple of days before your dental appointment, the anesthetic (most call it "novocaine" but it's actually lidocaine) won't work as well as it would if you had been sober for a week or so. The marijuana increases the tolerance to the local anesthetic. So, she may have known from that reason also.

Just FYI... now to crawl back under my rock of anonymity.

Oh yeah... and don't tell your doctor/dentist about it if you don't want them to write it in your medical chart. Because unless they are incredibly, incredibly cool they probably will. FYI.

Who cares? Most of the population smokes either cannabis or tobacco on a daily basis. The only thing I'd worry about is the dentist bringing that up in front of your mom or something.

I went to the dentist yesterday... My teeth are fine, but my gums are and have always been very sensitive, so i think that i should be fine for future dentist appointments
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Well, you may not care, but believe me, there are plenty of uptight employers who would fire someone if they got their hands on a medical chart and got it into their head to conduct random drug screenings. I wouldn't want my employers and/or school administrators to know. I have a lot to lose. So I think it's important that people know how to keep it quiet everywhere they go, including in a so-called "confidential" setting like the doctor or dentist.

TheSmokingMonkey, I'm curious whether your dental program required an agreement that you wouldn't do "street" drugs? My medical program did, and so I'm not smoking. I smoked in college and then didn't smoke for many many years, but then we got some medicinal weed for my sister, who has cancer, this past summer, and I smoked with her before school started. But now that I'm in school, I'm staying clean out of fear. A large part of my motivation--larger than the agreement I signed, really--is that one of these days we'll be conducting various lab tests upon ourselves. I'd be terribly embarrassed if a drug or toxicology screen came up positive for me, the fourth oldest person in class. Also, I truly seem to require every brain cell I can muster up, and for some reason weed seemed to deplete me of IQ points.

I don't remember signing anything. We do have a policy that says we will be punished or whatever, but since I don't do it at school I don't really worry about it too much. I know that once you *have* a dental license it can't be taken away for drug "problems" - usually you are just required to undergo treatment or whatever. If you got a DUI or something, a possession charge, it wouldn't impact your license unless you were impaired *at work*.

So anyway I don't know the details of my school's policy but I don't forsee them testing unless they had reasonable cause (which I don't give them, since I only do it at home).

I'm sure I am putting myself at some risk, but if I ever get "called" on it I am going to play the card that I wasn't high at school so they have no right to sanction me at school. It's like sanctioning me for drinking heavily on the weekend -- as long as I show up sober on Monday, it's fine.

I wouldn't do it, either, if I was expected to conduct toxicology screens on myself! Eeek!

Meth heads have disgusting mouths. Just think about the mouth of the plant from "little shop of horrors" but on a human.