<p>Berurah,</p>
<p>As regards the film Marathon Man, “…is it safe?” Every time Laurence Oliver tugged on his hook, I cringed. Ugh.</p>
<p>AudioP,</p>
<p>Was that from “Little Shop of Horrors?”</p>
<p>I will confess that I am a recovering bigot. I was born in the UK, so come by it naturally. Sadly, in my formative years, I had a dentist with a weight problem, with hands the size of a linebacker and the respiratory patterns of Darth Vader.</p>
<p>I took years to find the gentle dental approach that I so badly needed.</p>
<p>I take it a day at a time now…</p>
<p>Love our dentist!!! He inherited the practice (not a relative, though) from our old dentist, whom we also loved like a grandfather. In fact, H & I were dating seriously at the time I started going to that dentist. I referred my DH (then boyfriend) to him, and lo and behold, after about a year of checking our teeth, he kept bugging DH to marry me!! 
He was wonderful, and because of him (and our current dentist) we have had great dental care–and we got married!!! 
Sadly, he’s gone now, but we have such fond memories–of a dentist!!!</p>
<p>No bigotry here. Some of my best friends are dentists! :)</p>
<p>Yes, Audio’s song is from Little Shop of Horrors. Steve Martin does a great rendition of this.</p>
<p>
LW~
You and me <em>BOTH</em>!!! It is truly the stuff of nightmares, isn’t it?? :eek:</p>
<p>roshke~</p>
<p>I <em>thought</em> so! I have only seen LSOH once, so I couldn’t remember the exact song, but what audio posted really sounded familiar! </p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>Dentists that tell jokes…great. </p>
<p>Just what I need when having my teeth drilled.</p>
<p>No, FS - ‘helping you enjoy a brighter tommorow, with just a hint of minty freshness’ :D</p>
<p>It’s all in the wrist. :)</p>
<p>One real tribute to modern dentistry is that neither of my kids ever had a single cavity filled. When I was a kid, it was an every year event to be dreaded.</p>
<p>Just say ‘No’ to antidentite bias. :)</p>
<p>‘As regards the film Marathon Man, “…is it safe?” Every time Laurence Oliver tugged on his hook, I cringed. Ugh.’</p>
<p>The most chilling thing about that movie was when Dustin Hoffman was tied to the chair and LO most gently coaxed his mouth open. Then LO carefully probed for what he wanted - a cavity (I suppose). Once LO found it, he then NAILED :eek: it, which was creepy to watch. Ugh is right! I still remember that scene.</p>
<p>I’m a recovering “antidentite bigot”.</p>
<p>My mom took me to the dentist from hell for years. The last procedure he performed on me was to remove an impacted wisdom tooth with only a couple of shots of Novocain. I was only 13 at the time. After he chipped the last bit of tooth away from the bone, he said that it was a little rough going, so for the next one he would hypnotize me. My mom finally came to her senses and found a new family dentist. About six months to a year later he was hospitalized for psychological problems. </p>
<p>My current dentist is wonderful. No pain, great personality, and he has plasma screen tv’s on the ceilings above his chairs with wireless headphones. There’s no need to listen to the distrubing sound of drilling.</p>
<p>Just a hint - if you do what the dentists say there is seldom any drilling and filling. :)</p>
<p>I have always hated muzak for reasons besides the fact it’s banal & meant to be wallpaper. When I was young one of the first places it was heard was the dentist’s office. So this “soothing” background music always put me on edge! No offense to Mancini fans, but he is indelibly associated in my mind with scraping and drilling.</p>
<p>parent2noles–our kids’ teeth are in great shape because of fluoride. When many of us were young, we didn’t have that advantage. Plus some of my molars just didn’t close up properly, leaving them vulnerable to decay (also the age before sealants.)</p>
<p>FS: the tooth shall set you free.</p>
<p>mommusic - yep, we had well water, and my mother was slightly nutso and believed that fluoride was some kind of communist plot, so she refused to allow us to participate in the fluoride program at school. We didn’t eat much junk food, didn’t drink soda or juice, but we still all had cavities, and the filling technology was not as good then as it is now.</p>
<p>Neither one of my kids has ever had a cavity. </p>
<p>I am actually phobic about the dentist, the smell of the office make me feel panicky and sick. I go twice a year, but I really do need to take some valium first, otherwise I will freak out and leave.</p>
<p>How about a flask of fine Irish sustenance to see you thorugh? </p>
<p>Jameson, Bushmills, Tullamore Dew and so on?</p>
<p>For medicinal purposes only! ;)</p>
<p>parent2noles, unfortunately, I would have to down an excessive amount of the good stuff to be sufficiently relaxed, and I try to limit my daytime drinking : )</p>
<p>I just received a call from my dentist’s office reminding me of a Monday morning appointment, and all I keep thinking is…“IS IT SAFE!!!” :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:</p>
<p>Kramer: “Well, you’re an antidentite!”</p>
<p>Jerry: “I am not an antidentite!”</p>
<p>Kramer: “You’re a rabid antidentite! Next thing you know, you’ll be saying that they should have their own schools!”</p>
<p>Jerry: “But they DO have their own schools!!!”</p>
<p>One of the funniest Seinfeld episodes ever. :-)</p>
<p>OMG, this is the cutest thread…and I never saw it before!
My dad was the dentist, until he retired (when I was in my twenties). I grew up in a relatively small town on the coast, and I can remember classmates who “went to” my dad. How embarrassing. Even my hs boyfriend went to my dad. I am familiar with the dentist jokes; maybe that’s why the suicide rate for dentists is so high :eek:. Needless to say, neither I nor my brothers ever wanted to go into dentistry.</p>