Calculus really doesn't get you in the mood for thanksgiving dinner!

The day before thanksgiving I had to go down to the VA hospital and clean teeth! I saw three patients. One more memorable than the others. The patient was a class IV patient that was just there to have his upper left quad. cleaned. As a was cleaning that quad. I noticed that all of his lower anteriors were completely encased in calculus. He had just had them clean less than a month prior. It was shocking!!! I tried to tidy them up as best I could in the time I had, but he really needed another full mouth debridement. That made me lose my appetite just a little! How did it get so bad so fast!