9th February Dentists open up wide


Is an extra £20,000 a year enough to entice you to attempt to try and fix the smiles of a waiting room full of Shane McGowan look a likies? That's the question staring dentists full in the face up, many of whom decided on this career path after seeing Laurence Olivier drill into Dustin Hoffman's teeth without aneasthetic in the film Marathon Man. 

Speaking to Grace Under Pressure, aesthetic peridontal structural maintainance engineer (or dentist as they were called in the good old days), Veneer Crown, opened wide when he revealed "Aaaaagh God no. To be honest I would rather take on the monumental job of looking after Rylan or Rob Beckett's teeth rather than get an extra £20 big ones for peering into a cavity full of decaying stalagtites and stalagmites." 

"Nothing gives me more job satisfaction and helps reaffirm my money generating vocation than doing something non essential and essentially just cosmetic to someone's perfectly fine teeth, rather than helping to relieve pain or just allowing someone to actually eat."

At the time of going to press, with so many people awaiting treatment,  Grace Under Pressure is able to confirm that the only appointment slot available to all the new NHS patients will be at 'tooth hurty' in the afternoon.


 

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