I go to the dentist four times a year.
My insurance plan covers only two routine cleanings a year, but I have significant bone loss in my lower jaw, and the additional cleanings and work are the difference between keeping those teeth and losing this battle in my gum line.
The procedures are painful and messy, but the assistant has long, silky black hair, and some of it brushes against my face. I can hear the scrape scrape scrape of a metal pick on my teeth, the whine of the polisher, but all I feel is that whisp of hair.