The Tooth Crazy

I have always said, that everyone has a great true story in them. It so happens, that even dentists do as well! Here's the one my dentist told me today, to distract me and calm my nerves:

One day, my dentist was working on a very strange patient. There was just an odd vibe about him. An uneasiness. Hard to define, but it was there. But, there was a mouth to work on, so he set about working on the examination of a bothering tooth. The cavity was bad.

The patient was informed of this, and he asked what can be done about it. The dentist said he'd have to extract it. This made the patient more twitchy...

"How are you going to do that?"

"er...the old fashion way..."

"wait...", the odd patient asked, "you don't use lasers?"

"Um...we...er..don't use lasers, I use my tools..." the patient started to look a bit agitated, and my dentist decided to make a small joke. "...becuase I can't afford the Tooth Teleporter"

The patient sat up in all seriousness, with beady eyes afire, "you have a tooth teleporter?"

"well no, they haven't invented that yet..." the dentist stammered, seeing that the patient didn't know that was a joke, and he set about to extract the tooth.

After a few minutes, the patient held his hand up franticly and desperatly asked for a piece of paper and a pencil. He was handed such, and in a very scratchy script, wrote the following:

Reaserch and develop Tooth Teleportation Device.

At this point, the dentist was told he had an urgent call. it was the mother of the patient, which he took in the next room. The patient's mom asked if there was any trouble...

"no...no ma'am. should there be?"

"oh I'm so glad," the old lady said, "He's prone to bouts of violence. I don't want him to be arrested again. He gets so angry for no reasons at all, that he's told he can't take the bus anymore. Do you think perhaps you could pass pulling his tooth today? He doesn't like dentists."

"well, I'm kinda commited now!", and the dentist set about, very cautiously, pulling the tooth, and keeping an eye on the phone, in case he needed to call someone in the get this wackjob off his throat. Great, kind of wish there was a tooth teleporter now. My dentist said during the operation, he jumped each time the patient moved an arm. It wasn't the safest place in the world to be yanking out the tooth of a psycho with a hair trigger.

I have to remember next time I go there, to ask about their lasers that i know are burning my brain and the awesome power of the tooth 'porter. Perhaps he'll be a bit more gentile?