For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 05, 2010

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    JanLC  about 14 years ago

    Fun? Fun? The only thing fun about the dentist is being DONE.

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    parethed  about 14 years ago

    Just knock me out and wake me when its over…

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    gobblingup Premium Member about 14 years ago

    That’s no patient, that’s a fuzzy alien!

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    Ursula A Kehoe Premium Member about 14 years ago

    I had a root canal on Wednesday: the endodontist had over 200 movies for me to choose from. I wore a video headset and watched while he worked. The worst part was not seeing the end of the movie.

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    cdward  about 14 years ago

    Ugh, I have to go to the dentist on Monday.

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    alan.gurka  about 14 years ago

    I’ve had 3 root canals–all wide awake with only novocaine. All went well and painless.

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    ses1066  about 14 years ago

    I think that we all have an abiding fear of the sort of dentist that was so well portrayed by Steve Martin in “Little Shop of Horrors”! It is such a cultural icon that it will be generations going away!

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    WaynCharl  about 14 years ago

    The movie Marathon Man formed my eternal fear of dentists.

    IS IT SAFE ! ! ! !
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    WaynCharl  about 14 years ago

    The movie Marathon Man formed my fear of dentists forever. ” Is it SAFE”

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    rshive  about 14 years ago

    ladyfingers86– Ihad a dentist friend who (years ago) dreaded doing root canals. But I had one myself just last year and it wasn’t so bad.

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    JanLC  about 14 years ago

    Root canals can be painless with only Novocain, but they can also be horrendously painful when you get an endodontist who is incompetent. I have had 10 root canals in my lifetime. None of them were fun, but most of them were painless. My discomfort with dentists stems from the old fool who was my dentist growing up in the 50’s. My parents thought he was wonderful. He wasn’t. He routinely hurt me so bad that I neglected my teeth for several years after I got old enough to say no to ever seeing him again. It took a LOT of nitrous oxide and a dentist who was very gentle and painless to get me past the “clenching my fists so hard I cut my palms with my nails” fear of dentistry.

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    summerdog86  about 14 years ago

    How about the dentist in “Little Shop of Horrors”?

    starts singing…..”Be a dentist!”

    Had a root canal a couple of weeks ago by a dentist with the personality of a rock. Procedure was pretty painless till the novocaine wore off a couple of hours later. Then it was an ice pack on the face for three days while the drilled-out, burned-out nerve finally gave up the ghost. Shall we talk about the COST? And I have no new crown to brag about, either. Just an empty sliver spot on the gum line where the tooth used to live. The perfect tooth that is now in a small box because of a green olive pit where a red pimento was SUPPOSED to be.

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    gofinsc  about 14 years ago

    My job before I retired was so bad that it was better to go to the dentist for a cleaning than work.

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    Shikamoo Premium Member about 14 years ago

    That’s no laughing matter.

    Oh, wait! It IS a laughing matter.

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    Gretchen's Mom  about 14 years ago

    The final bill is usually more painful to me than the actual procedure was!

    :-(

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    brigidkeely  over 1 year ago

    This strip, from the 80s, was republished twelve years ago. It’s still rare that my dentists dam my mouth. The first time I encountered it was about 15 years ago – such a rare thing that I took a photo. IDK if it’s a Canada/USA thing or what.

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