# Does your dental hygienist or dentist or anyone take your blood pressure at routine dental visits?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-dental-hygienist-or-dentist-or-anyone-take-your-blood-pressure-at-routine-dental-visits/775870 "2016-12-29T22:49:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-dental-hygienist-or-dentist-or-anyone-take-your-blood-pressure-at-routine-dental-visits/775870/41 "2017-01-03T20:23:29Z")

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There are two dentists in the office I visit. The senior doctor (male) is the one who founded the practice, and the junior doctor (female) joined him about 3 years ago. This year, she started taking blood pressures and refused to do a filling on me because my BP was too high. (I am under rigorous medical care for my BP, and things were out of whack at the time.)

I had to make another appointment, and when I did, I got the senior doctor who did not take my BP.

I voted “Always”, but it really is “Depends on who I see.”

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