You’re about to have a serious operation (hysterectomy, cardiovascular surgery, joint replacement, etc.) and the day before you go into the hospital, you get a toothache. The surgeon has cleared you for the operation but the toothache makes everything else stop and you must go to a dentist immediately.

  You don’t know any dentist (you haven’t seen one in years) and the medical doctors never inquired about your dental health so you’ve got a bit of a dilemma. Someone recommends the new dentist in town and you go – and you’re stunned.

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Citation

Citation: Jan Wade Gilbert. "Dentistry is Ho-Hum Until it Saves your Life".Acta Scientific Dental Sciences 4.1 (2020): 25-26.

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Copyright: © 2020 Jan Wade Gilbert. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.