Weimar Family Dentistry

«It will be the most boring 90 minutes you’ve spent in a dentist’s office» said my new dentist to me the other day.
Flash back to Sunday when I woke up to that dull throbbing in my left rear tooth. the type that says «Hi, you’re in for a fun week.» It wasn’t too bad, and I ignored it most of Sunday while realizing that I was going to have to do something soon. Something being find and visit a dentist. By Sunday night, it was feeling worse, and sleep was hard to come by.
Monday I got up, still in pain, but I had a full morning of conference calls. I started taking the calls, popped a couple of advil and by noon, it was feeling better, so I kept going. My Monday night, it was in full out torment mode with the entire bolivian army doing bayonet practice in my mouth. Sleep was even more fleeting on Monday night than Sunday.
By 5am Tuesday morning, I was at my computer, on Angie’s List, looking for dentists that didn’t suck. The first one I came across was pretty close, in Maple Grove, named Weimar. The hours said they opened at 8AM, so at 8:01 i was on the phone to see if they could get me in. They actually did fit me in at 10am that morning, so off I went.
First off, the staff is amazing. All friendly, and not once was I scolded for not having been to the dentist for ummm, ‘several’ years. They got me in pretty fast, did digital x-​rays of my teeth, including a full 360 jaw shot in a machine that looked like it came out of Star Trek. Completing that, Dr. Weimar came in to take a look. As he was probing my mouth, he had the digital images up on a screen that I could see. He explained what he was doing every step of the way. He also avoided probing on my left rear because he knew that was sensitive. Props for that, prior dentists would have zeroed in on poking at that with the inane comment of «does that hurt?»
After he finished checking, he let me know that indeed I would need a root canal as infection had gotten in from the fractured tooth. That was also when he promised it would be the most boring 90 minutes I could spend in a dentists office. After finding out that I travel a lot, he shuffled things to get me in today (Friday) for the procedure. In the meantime, he gave me some anti-​biotics and Vicadin to kill the pain (mmm, Vicadin good). I popped those as soon as I got home, and within 30 minutes, the soldiers had vacated the mouth.
Flash forward to today. My appointment was for noon, but I got a call at about 8:30 indicating he was ahead of schedule and I could come in at 11:10 if I liked. I did like, so I was there at 11:10 (and out by 12:20). I’d love to go into lots of gory detail about how miserable the experience was, but honestly, he was right. He numbed the area (I barely felt the needles), slipped a dam in, and went to work. No stress, no pain, very relaxed the entire time. Now that the local is wearing off, it’s a bit tender which is to be expected, but nothing a couple of Advil can’t handle. He indicated by the end of the weekend it would be no problems at all.
So, where does this leave us? Will I go back? Hell yes. This was without a doubt the most relaxing dental experience I’ve had. The staff is wonderful, you can make your appointments online, and they can text you reminders. Oh, and when I left from my first appointment on Tuesday, they gave me a Starbucks gift card. How cool is that?