Favorite smell of the dentist office?

I’m curious if anyone else enjoys every sensory trigger involved with going to the dentist, and what your favorite smells are there. Every dental office has that same familiar smell.

TCP an antiseptic used for years in the UK.

I do like the latex glove smell. one time my dentist put her hand over my mouth for about thirty seconds… i liked the smell, but like the feel of a bare hand over my mouth too.

Enjoy walking in to a house or a room with the fresh smell of coffee. Our dentist is in an office building that has an open coffee shop at the entrance.

What I remember of dental offices in the past was the smell of oil of cloves. It is a very cloying/thick smell and is said to help deaden (dental) pain. I find it pleasant and sensual and it reminds me of patchouli, which also has sensuous and counter-cultural connotations for me.

Latex gloves or latex dental dams. The pleasant, strong and erotic smell of my female dentist's latex gloved hands over or in my mouth is exquisite, making the visit much nicer. I'm always wearing sneakers anyway, usually Keds or Cinverse canvas and rubber, to most places including the dentist, so the latex gloves or dams also remind me that I have the thick erotic rubber snugly tied to my feet which I enjoy and also makes the visit better too.

As you might guess, other than at the dentist, among the many wonderful smells of the world, my favorite is rubber or latex, especially cleanish Keds or Converse sneakers, catsuits, wetsuits and gloves.

Eric

I love the smell of a dental clinic in general, that mix of cleaners and All the other disposable stuff that hits you as soon as you walk in the door.

Concrete smell of dentist office.

I suspect it’s all the tooth polishing that they do there.

I love the smell that hits you as soon as you walk through the front door. The smell of the latex gloves is incredible. Unfortunately, most dental offices aren't using latex gloves anymore. Nitrile just isn't the same. I had a cleaning appointment recently and when the dentist brought me back to the operatory, she had two pairs of white latex gloves already laid out on the instrument tray. This was an extremely pleasant surprise and I'm hopeful that the office will still be using these when I go back for my next appointment!

@agracier: What I remember of dental offices in the past was the smell of oil of cloves. It is a very cloying/thick smell and is said to help deaden (dental) pain. I find it pleasant and sensual and it reminds me of patchouli, which also has sensuous and counter-cultural connotations for me.

Had many cavities when young with my baby teeth in the late 1940's. Oil of cloves was what my parents would use till they could get me to a dentist. Don't remember the smell of the offices back then, though.

TCP is a liquid antiseptic which as been used in the UK for many years. Hospitals used to disinfect equipment with it. It is still sold in the UK at low cost, as a “medicine cupboard item”.

This may sound odd but at the dentist getting a tooth drilled I sometimes will detect a burning smell. For some strange reason I like that smell. Also this thread is about dentist office smells and further back in the thread I saw the smell of natural pussy mentioned. If I ever smell that in the dentist office I go to that will surely go to the top of my list! 😋

The chemical smell in the air, latex glove. i enjoy the smells from the moment i walk into the door.

I got to go with the scent of the dentist . They're leaning right over you.

Like many said the rubber. Plastic urethane that kind of fresh plastic diesel smell sort of.

All my life I’ve enjoyed what is to me the almost universal dental office odor, present since at least the late 1950’s through to this day. It’s not in any way erotic or sexual, just sort of pleasantly familiar as I smell that I’ve entered the dentists office. I think I associate it with cleanings, but not drilling or fillings. I enjoyed it well before knowing I had developed a latex and rubber fetish before the age of 8, so it’s not the fairly dim rubber glove smell in the room, but I’ve always suspected one of the office disinfectants or perhaps more likely the aroma of the dentifrice or tooth abrasive polish used to clean teeth. I never specifically asked them or pinned it down.

Eric

As many before me have said, the general smell of the office, the smell of latex, and the smell of nitrous oxide.

just sort of pleasantly familiar as I smell that I’ve entered the dentists office……, but I’ve always suspected one of the office disinfectants or perhaps more likely the aroma of the dentifrice or tooth abrasive polish used to clean teeth.

I wonder if you might have been smelling cloves or oil of cloves. This was often used in my younger days as a product that reduced pain in teeth and was probably used for other dental purposes as well, probably mixed with other products.

In the movie Marathon Man, the good guy, Dustin Hoffman, gets his teeth drilled through by the bad guy dentist and is given a vial of oil of cloves to deaden the pain if only he will give up the secret info he knows.

Tooth dust

Definitely the latex smell from all the latex gloves.

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I would probably have liked the smell of a vintage rubber anesthesia mask but really I probably most enjoy the smell of burning rubber accelerating out of the surgery car park to get away...

Nitrous oxide. Lol! But also the smell of the gloves and just the general “clean” smell.