Good on you for walking out.

yes you certainly would want to know their office's COVID policies.

are the same damn way.

livelihood and biz hasn't been so great lately...

They took it seriously where she works, implemented strict safety protocols. I know for sure she and the guy who works closest to her (8 ft away) were vaccinated and think the other stylist and masseuse there were did as well. I too quit going to a dentist when he said Covid was a hoax to make hospitals more money. Hopefully my new dentist will be good, we'll see soon.

The same as my dentist and those who work there.I guess it depends on where one lives.

First, I called my original dentist, who was noncommittal about staff vaccinations, saying "most of us are vaccinated." I said that wasn't good enough, and called another, who said "we are all fully vaccinated." The second one got my appointment and transferred records.

It's health care. Not risk care.

but to say you are taking Hydrochloroquine as a preventive measure, and you are health care professional/scientist? That shows me that you are incompetent, non-professional and open to a malpractice suit.

Morons taking hydroxychloroquine and antivax dimwits will be facing the full threat of infection.

Vaccinated people won't be. Oh, they might get exposed and a slight infection will set in, but disease will not follow. The immune system kicks in too quickly for that.

I can't believe people are still taking hydroxychloroquine, the word has been out for nearly a year that it's ineffective as either a preventive or a treatment, it only works on several strains of malaria and a load of autoimmune diseases. Its worst adverse effect is blindness, which can happen a couple of years after it's discontinued. Bet they don't know about that, either.

get infected with covid.

The nurse is constantly citing one study or another that says if you start it early, it’s effective. 0.3 ml of vaccine x2. Ingredients are basically food grade components and mRNA. And these morons go on and on about “poison”! And “my immune system is strong”! And believe this snake oil will save them.

her prescriptions filled because of the stupidly increased demand.

after Dumdum and his nitwit son in law tried to corner the market.

Somebodu in the Biden administration needs to look into it, release it to rheumatologists.

I was on it for about 15 years, total.

up your sleeve and come on over for your shot. Availability sure is different than when I got mine several months ago.

and the folks counting on "herd immunity". Well, herd immunity happens BECAUSE large numbers of the population (70 to 80%) get fully vaccinated. We just aren't there yet.

I had very similar thing happen to me at my 'ex-dentist' office. Only one hygienist had a mask on, in the whole office. The dentist walked in and finally pulled his up over his mouth but not his nose. The icing on the cake, was when he asked me (as they were watching faux news), if i was a bible scholar. As soon as he got his hand out of my mouth, I left. I have a new dentist now. His office is like going into surgery.

I’m now wondering about my right wing dentist and receptionist. Been seeing them for 40 years. But I got no problem going to a fully vaccinated office, no problem dropping them.
There were over 10,000 cases of “breakthrough” COVID since we started vaccinating. . That’s when you get sick and your fully vaccinated. I have a co worker that just went to his grandmas funeral where 13 people got sick in her nursing home and 2 died, all vaccinated.
Of the >10,000 on the CDC site about 160 died with a medium age of 82.
My dentist could give me the virus and I take it to my elderly moms house. Ain’t gonna happen!
Oh, and you know those numbers are low!

I refuse the vaccine but I'll only clean teeth on vaccinated people.
These MAGAers are really out of touch with reality.

MAGATs.

I had the second to last part of a root canal crown procedure. It was the day California shut down everything and theoretically the dentist should not have even be doing crowns. He was a new dentist to me and I had no idea he still sent out for the actual crown (which meant waiting another 2 weeks). Over a year later, I still have a temporary because I discovered that day the dentist and assistant thought hydroxychloroquine would be the treatment for COVID. Me-I walked in with raincoat, N95 and portable sterilizer, nervous as hell. While in the chair the assistant said “I think this will blow over in a few weeks.” I remember grabbing her arm and saying “Oh dear.”

I doubt the assistant or office worker is vaccinated just based on my gut instincts. Two weeks later they called me to say the crown was in and they were still operating business as usual.

My County is full on Trumper and has the worst vaccine and COVID stats in California.

I need to get my teeth cleaned and crown finished but not sure what to do.

And by “your area” I mean as far as you are willing to commute. We’re still driving 40+ miles to our old town in order to stay with the doctor, the dentist, and the ophthalmologist.

#1 Are you and your staff all vaccinated for COVID?
#2 Are you still following safety protocols now that restrictions are loosening up?
#3 What are those safety protocols? (My dentist has always worn a mask and gloves, going back to when I met him)
#4 Will you take over an unfinished root canal/crown procedure? Can you retrieve the crown from the other guy, so at least that’s not wasted?

If they ask you why you are leaving your old dentist, simply say you were not satisfied with their safety protocols in these times. That should be explanation enough.

That should do it. I wish you all the best of luck.

This dentist is very slow which counterintuitively works well for me. My last dentist made my tinnitus 10 times worse and one of the remedies is to drill intermittently. She wouldn’t do that even though I offered to pay for her time. Not only that, she basically fired me knowing I had the root canal on 3/15 and the root canal dentist forwarded my records to her w/o me knowing. Unbeknownst to her, I had found another dentist. I think the root canal doctor told her what I said about her frenetic drilling. To do that on the cusp of a pandemic closing after a root canal! Not impressed. The Trumper dentist, because he is so cautious, did not exacerbate my tinnitus and based on the previous dentist, not sure I’d find another like him. Torn between waiting the pandemic out and making this temp last, but I need cleaning so bad.

I’ve been dreading the call to this dentist to ask about protocols. I’m vaccinated, so not sure of my risk, but we have churches in this town that still think masks are a control feature and a New Age contingency that thinks a strong immune system will protect them. I’ve asked several people in last few days if they are vaccinated—refridgerator repair guy, a contractor, small local coffee drive thru proprietor, an organizer I want to hire and none vaccinated! Every excuse in the book (“I almost died when I got the newest shingles vaccine”, “I don’t trust it yet”, “I had COVID so I have antibodies”, one just said not vaccinated —refridge repair guy..he wore a mask snd zi UV’d my house after he left.). We have two skilled nursing facilities in our tiny county. One of them had a vaccinated resident die. Only 15% of the workers are vaccinated!!

Anyway, this is probably TMI, but it’s life in Trump country.

I went to a new dentist last year. No one asked me the Covid questions. There were no signs anywhere. The "bay" had two chairs, just separated by a partial partition. In the other bay, while I sat and was examined by the technician with my mouth wide open, a woman was being treated by dentist and they were both YAKKING and YAKKING loudly. The woman in the chair obviously had no mask on while being treated. I never went back.

I'm so tired of idiots.

Even with between 50-65% of American adults are vaccinated, there are new cases every day. New deaths every day. If you have to get into someone's mouth or body, for Christ's sake, get a vaccine.

you can ask, but they don't have to answer. Happily my dentist and periodontist were all vaccinated except one, who was waiting for the opportunity to get the J&J vaccination.

rooting around in anyone’s mouth.

The hygienist who assisted the doctor had no mask on. Mr. Dupree did not ask her to wear a mask. Later, it came up in conversation that the masked doc and the patient were vaccinated and the hygienist was not. The doctor said to her, “ See Janet? You should get vaccinated”. So this woman had her hands in my husbands mouth and was working closely next to him, maskless and not vaccinated. I’m still mad at my husband for not discussing this at the office right there and then. He could have had a hand in protecting another patient, if not himself. And I’m furious with the doctor for not protecting my spouse. This happened 2 weeks ago and I’m still steaming. Don’t be like Mr. Dupree. Stick up for yourselves.

the pandemics, at least the professional ones.

prior to surgery. The ultrasound techs and the radiologist were talking about Covid and wondering about how soon a vaccine would be available. Both of the US techs stated that they would not take a vaccine. They didn't say why, and I wasn't up to asking them why not, but it was unsettling to me nevertheless.

were available. Maybe they’d started vaccinations by my second visit. Both times the hygienist and dentist were in full PPE—masks, shields, gloves, suit, the whole works. I’m curious to see what things look like at my next appt in a couple months. If a health care worker doesn’t want to get vaccinated (crazy!), they need to keep using sufficient PPE.

are doing curb service for pets.

When this vaccine is fully approved, I hope employers mandate it across the board. And all our other vaccines as well. I don’t want to get flu, measles, or pertussis from some dip$hit anti-vaxxer

A veterinarian making sure his all of his staff are vaccinated, but a dentist ........

It has to be a triple-layer, medical grade mask, and they will provide one, if you need it.

They said not everyone in the office was vaccinated, and I said I’d wait until they were. I can’t understand medical employees not getting the vaccine, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to insist that they are, especially people who crawl up in your face to treat you.

and polio vax that I believe everyone had to get. And the measles and all the others???

I didn't want to get into an argument, I just wanted to leave. But I was thinking later of many things I wish I'd said. Like the fact that "being American" doesn't grant us carte blanche. I wish I'd asked her if she objects to the seatbelt laws, etc.?

It's a shame, because I really like that doc. Competent and with, usually, good beside manner. And, if I try to find a replacement, the same thing seems likely to happen. Apparently, neither doctors nor their staff are legally bound to be vaccinated.

So how did the den-hy get it?

“The FDA and the National Institutes of Health state that hydroxychloroquine should ONLY be taken for the treatment of COVID-19 under the direction of a doctor in a clinical study.”

So....?

I would have walked out too. I visited my dentist a couple of weeks ago and didn't ask about vacs. The dentist came in and said she did but I don't remember the hygienist mentioning anything about it.i

I'm not too worried about it, but now I'll call and
ask them if their hygienists are vaccinated.

Thanks for this.

care that he has a crazy conspiracy nut working on his patients.

Still, I am quite certain that dentists and hygienists wore masks before the pandemic. Really common sense and I would think that the medical board - or whoever regulates them - should say so.

I asked if they were, I don’t trust people.

recep is in a little alcove and she prepairs the bills and apointments from there . i goto super cuts and there is only one stylist at a time and coustomers are told to make a same day apointment ,. both must wear masks .