Julie was a bit of a shy once when she started her dental training. She was only 18 and it was the first time that she had lived away from home.
But the years of training meant that when she graduated she had the highest average starting salary of any graduate profession, including medical doctors and lawyers.
She was a lot more confident professionally and socially as a qualified dentist than the scared 18 year old that she started out as.
Now Julie was 24, she found that she loved dentistry. Some of it she enjoyed too much. The case of one patient was a case in point.
He had come in for a general check up. We will leave him nameless to protect his identity. He had only seen a dentist 6 months earlier, so a visual inspection is normally all that would have been needed in this situation.
However, as she had just started out in her own practice, she needed all the work she could get, and so she decided to give him x-rays as well.
There was a delay between the x-rays and their being developed. This gave the patient time to take in the environment in which he found himself. He looked up and saw the obligatory print of flowers that seems to be in every dentists. He noticed the radio station playing as background music.
He looked over and saw Julie with her back to him. He noticed that she was attractive, had a nice body, and was no long the terrifying monster dentist that he thought that all dentists were. Her jeans were tight and she was slim. She wore a white top which matched her white sneakers.
Julie showed him in and he sat on the dentists chair. He had always been afraid of dentists, and it was only now as an adult that he went regularly.
Julie was perhaps not in the best condition to be with a patient as nervous as he was. She was pre-menstrual, she had finished a relationship a month ago, and she was out with friends last night and a little hangover.
'Open wide,' she said, moving her gloved hands with reflecting mirror into his mouth.
She poked around a bit needlessly. Every time she touched a gum he jumped.
'Well, everything seems fine she,' said with the emphasis on the word 'seems.' But you do have a drilling that I would like to replace and a small temporary one to put till we can put in a permanent one later on. We can do those now if you like.'
'Sure.' the nervous patient muttered obediently.