There must be a lot of dentists out there who are fans of Little Shop of Horrors....

Suicide rates are fairly high for dentists. Apparently nobody likes to talk to them at cocktail parties.

If he's continued to treat patients the way he treated you, odds are someone removed his balls years ago....

I only wish. He's the reason why many of my family members continue to need Valium in order to go to the wonderful new dentists we've found since that bastard retired.

I have asked how my PT cousin retains patients. Mother (who is one of hers) says that maybe non-relatives report pain sooner.

However, don't freak with me. I am a sour bitter chronic painer.

Apparently nobody likes to talk to them at cocktail parties.

I think I'm being quite civilized enough when I refrain from drilling into their nerves without warning or anaesthesia.

I think I'm being quite civilized enough when I refrain from drilling into their nerves without warning or anaesthesia.

Very civilized of you.

"Is it safe?"

Slate educates us about steak.

At the Ferry Building I can go over to the San Francisco Meat Market and talk with a butcher and they really will tell me exactly what the cow fed on and where and how it was finished. Also there's a separate vendor that sells super untainted beef they raise for medical purposes (joint replacement and collagen and such).

gives ita's cousin evil stink eye

I can't be objective about my pain tolerance as compared to others. I do know that I tolerate pain better than an itch. I will tear at an itch until it becomes an easier to live with pain.

When I finally got to the oral surgeon, he didn't fool around. He just said, "Okay, we're going to do the surgery right now." I started to cry because I was so grateful to find someone who was taking it seriously.

YES. A thousand times yes. I think in my haze of relief, I proposed marriage. I mean, he was kinda cute, and he was giving me drugs legally!

I had swelling the size of a fist just under my nose. It was the opposite of pretty.

Back in the 60's I had a dentist rip out a tooth without any anesthisia! OMG!

When I had my wisdom teeth out, I was given a valium to take the night before and another the morning of, and them sodium pentathol for during. I don't remember anything!

Owner's daughter is here with her dog. The thing doesn't trust men and goes a little berserk every once in awhile. It might be some sound the machinery is making that we can't hear.

If he's continued to treat patients the way he treated you, odds are someone removed his balls years ago....

My beloved exdh had a sadist dentist who ripped out a bunch of teeth without warning and without adequate medication. I was furious on his behalf. The next week, somebody walked into the dentist's office and shot him dead. Fortunately, my ex, who was a cop at the time, had an airtight alibi. No tears were shed.

I, on the other hand, had my wisdom teeth taken out without drugs...voluntarily. Pain is preferable to needles in my world.