I love going to the dentist!
I hate it! you're a crazy person! I know it's a good way to diagnose and prevent oral issues, but I'm so creeped out by them!
My dentist gives me a hand mirror so I can watch what she is doing.  My favorite thing to watch was the root canal she performed on me.
oh my god. who even are you. in China and France the first people who did dentistry were BARBERS!!
No way!  Go get a shave, then have a tooth pulled?  Even I would draw the line there!
oh and it gets even worse...there's STREET dentistry! unlicensed people working on your teeth on the street!
I guess that's akin to back alley abortions.  Street dentistry is probably a result of people not having dental insurance.  Terrible!
yep, and they've been trying to stop it since 1400! they formed the Guild of Barbers who were the only ones who could extract teeth
I wonder if that is when dentists had to actually go to medical school and get some sort of training besides cutting hair!
Barber surgeon
The barber surgeon, one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, was generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle. In this era, surgery was seldom conducted by physicians, but instead by barbers, who, possessing razors and coordination indispensable to their trade, were called upon for numerous tasks ranging from cutting hair to amputating limbs.
In this period surgical mortality was very high, due to blood loss and infection. Yet since doctors thought that blood letting treated illness,
of genius and, in the video for "Army of Me", wants a dentist that's a gorilla to find a diamond in my mouth, some people call it nonsense. But it's probably the most realistic way of expressing what situation I'm in—all these people trying to take things away from me, and the gorilla finding a diamond that I don't know I have and then stealing it. "Army of Me" is so much about me actually learning that I have to defend myself. I