Dental Work
Monday, 02.11.08 @ 12:08AM 
The plight of toothless Kentuckians made the New York Times. According to the article, of all the United States, Kentucky has the highest proportion of adults under 65 without teeth. And half of us with teeth don’t have dental insurance. I was surprised to learn that people in other states are more likely to have dental insurance... it just always seemed like a real luxury to me. Where I used to work, no one had dental insurance, with the possible exception of management, who didn’t talk to us about such things. I’ve had dental insurance about two years in my whole life, through a job in Tennessee. Of course, during that time I had extensive work done, but I’ve never let lack of insurance keep me from trying to save my teeth. That’s what credit cards are for!
Safe and White (via the Presurfer)
A video collection of dental nightmares. Not for the squeamish.
Strange clip where Kramer accuses Seinfeld of bigotry... against dentists.
Which Muppet does toothless Fuzzy Dave look like? Contrast the look with and without teeth at Fuzzytopia.
Get yourself a Mouth Cam, and you’ll finally see what the dentist sees on the back of your teeth.
Things you’ve always wondered about the dentist.
FALSE TEETH
(via Phil’s Phun)
A dinner speaker at the Rotary meeting was in such a hurry to get to his engagement that when he arrived and sat down at the head table, he suddenly realised that he had forgotten his false teeth.
Turning to the man next to him, he said, "I forgot my teeth."
The man said, "No problem."
With that, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of false teeth. "Try these," he said.
The speaker tried them. "Too loose," he said.
The man then said, "I have another pair... try these."
The speaker tried them and responded, "Too tight."
The man was not taken back at all. He then said, "I have one more pair of false teeth... try them."
The speaker said, "They fit perfectly."
With that he ate his meal and gave his address. After the dinner meeting was over, the speaker went over to thank the man who had helped him.
"I want to thank you for coming to my aid. Where is your office? I've been looking for a good dentist."
The man replied,
"I'm not a dentist. I'm the local undertaker."
BLONDE
(via Phil’s Phun)
The nervous blonde sat on the dentist's chair to have her tooth extracted.
Seeing so many instruments, she got frightened.
"Doc, I would rather have a baby than have my tooth pulled out."
The dentist retorted, "Well, make up your mind so that I can adjust the chair accordingly."
The Dental Visit
Tim Conway and harvey Korman from The Carol Burnett Show.
Previously at Miss Cellania: Dentist and Teeth
Thought for today: Of course, the toothbrush was invented in Kentucky. If it has originated anywhere else, it’d be called a teethbrush.
Reader Comments (3)
Funny thang...on a business trip in Kentucky, I found something unique that I hadn't seen before: a bag of genuine hen's teeth, from a rare breed of Arkansas chicken. So the story went (on the package), if the rare chicken was removed from the Arkansas environs, the teeth would fall out. Since there were only teeth in the package, and no chicken, I reckoned that this was, in fact, the case. That told me that chicken dental insurance outside of Arkansas tended to suck.
What I found most fascinating about this bag was that (a) I found it in a gift shop and (b) the teeth looked startlingly similar to Minute Rice...
NICE!
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