Shilpa KarhikMY DATES WITH DENTISTS
May 4th 2007 14:26
I had just stepped into a dentist office and I read this inspiring quote ‘To extract is human but to restore is divine’. That sums up the dreary dictum of dentists. Have you ever come back from a dentist hearing good news about your teeth? No! It’s always bad news. Dentistry means drilling, filling and billing.
It is the second worst fear after public speaking.I had just a cavity in my molar tooth. He made a mountain out that molar inventing four more. He then asked my father what kind of filling he should use. Hearing it, I snapped back- ‘Chocolate or Ice cream filling please!’ On my next date, he informed my father that a tooth needed extraction. My father asked, ‘What is the fee doctor?’ He said ‘Fifty rupees.’ My penny-pinching father made a bargain note- ‘Doctor, Fifty rupees for just five minutes of job!’ The dentist retorted dauntlessly, ‘I can extract slowly, if you want’.
A dentist is like a magician who, having put metal in your mouth pulls coins from your pocket.
Here's a story of a couple who went to meet a dentist. When the couple reached the dentist's office, the man who was in a big hurry told the dentist. ‘Doctor, no fancy stuff! No painkillers please! Just pull the tooth and get it over with!’ The dentist looked at him admiringly and said, ‘ I wish all my patients had your courage. Good! Now, show me your tooth’. The man suddenly turned to his wife, ‘Honey, show your tooth’. Well, I reassured my wary wife that it would be a painless one.
The wife was crying in horror with pain.At last, he pulled out her tooth without getting on her nerves further.When the husband saw the bill he was shocked, as he had charged 400 Rupees. The husband confronted him- ‘Doctor, this is four times your normal fee for a tooth extraction’. The dentist explained, ‘Yes, I know. But her scream scared away four patients from my waiting room’.
No wonder dentists are driven to extortion… I mean extraction. When a dentist makes an extraction, you hope he pulls the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth. If it is wrong, it is ‘acci-dental’. If it is right, it is ‘inci-dental’.
It is the second worst fear after public speaking.I had just a cavity in my molar tooth. He made a mountain out that molar inventing four more. He then asked my father what kind of filling he should use. Hearing it, I snapped back- ‘Chocolate or Ice cream filling please!’ On my next date, he informed my father that a tooth needed extraction. My father asked, ‘What is the fee doctor?’ He said ‘Fifty rupees.’ My penny-pinching father made a bargain note- ‘Doctor, Fifty rupees for just five minutes of job!’ The dentist retorted dauntlessly, ‘I can extract slowly, if you want’.
A dentist is like a magician who, having put metal in your mouth pulls coins from your pocket.
Here's a story of a couple who went to meet a dentist. When the couple reached the dentist's office, the man who was in a big hurry told the dentist. ‘Doctor, no fancy stuff! No painkillers please! Just pull the tooth and get it over with!’ The dentist looked at him admiringly and said, ‘ I wish all my patients had your courage. Good! Now, show me your tooth’. The man suddenly turned to his wife, ‘Honey, show your tooth’. Well, I reassured my wary wife that it would be a painless one.
The wife was crying in horror with pain.At last, he pulled out her tooth without getting on her nerves further.When the husband saw the bill he was shocked, as he had charged 400 Rupees. The husband confronted him- ‘Doctor, this is four times your normal fee for a tooth extraction’. The dentist explained, ‘Yes, I know. But her scream scared away four patients from my waiting room’.
No wonder dentists are driven to extortion… I mean extraction. When a dentist makes an extraction, you hope he pulls the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth. If it is wrong, it is ‘acci-dental’. If it is right, it is ‘inci-dental’.
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