Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 27, 2016

Just be happy you’re not a lion, Rat, or he would’ve shot you and mounted you’re head.

Is the dentist related to Jef?

*your head

Whirs spall coreck whin use kneed it?

Actually, more personable than some dentists I’ve gone to over the years. Probably why I subscribe to the philosophy of “Leave ‘em alone; they’ll fall out by themselves.”

Usually, they just send you home with that unspoken diagnosis. This character actally says it out loud!

Clearly I am an outlier. I actually like my dentist. I’ve been his patient for roughly 30 years. He is a solo practitioner, with only a secretary to handle the phone and appointment book. No hygienist. The Doctor himself actually cleans your teeth! Prior to him, I went through a variety of dentists. This guy – I don’t know if I’m allowed to name him on these comment boards – is personable, thorough, & honest.

I just like how the headrest on the chair is about a foot and a half above his ears.Don’t forget your bland sugar-free sucker on the way out.

Sounds like my dentist.. They always find something to bring you back for.

I haven’t been to the dentist since December 2004, and my teeth are just fine

Hairy forearms and knuckles, please I’m having a hot flash!

How long has it been for Pastis last dentist vist. I haven’t seen one of those Spit Sinks in over 40 + years.

I thought the sink was a Margarita glass until my wife told me different. Really thought that Rat was partying at the dentist.

Rat, remember this visit. On your next visit when the dentist tells you to rinse and spit, pick your target carefully.

… so, in Rat’s book, that was a #win? (just out of curiosity … was Rat raised by Catholic Nuns?) :P

I have a dental appointment later today. It could not be worse than this. Therefore, I feel better about the appointment already. Thanks Rat.

Love that little bitty bib…wonder if the lead-laden one used for x-rays is just as small?

So true – every dentist I went to always had unnaturally hairy forearms.

Have one pulled, and get a brand new perspective on life. In the old westerns, just a swig of whiskey did the job. Shots and gas didn’t help me much. Still suspect fake gas!

Amazingly enough today’s Spanish version nails it, except the last sentence in the second panel says “makes my hair stand on end.”

Dentist haven’t used spit bowls for years.

Wow, I couldn’t have put it better myself what the dentist said in the 2nd panel.

Minus the large ego and hairy forearms.

xxx

Until just now I thought the sink was a giant martini glass.

My dentist advertises that he specializes in small children and big cowards. Can’t go wrong with that.

Rodents don’t need dental care. Their teeth just keep growing.

this is just like my dentist appointments

They are actually called “cuspidors”. I work for a Dental manufacturing firm and our salespeople do discourage them in favor of vacuum evacuators but you can’t change peoples minds (dentists and patients) so while the numbers sold dwindles each year, they are still being sold.

BTW. Do NOT close your mouth completely around the evacuators. While the tips are replaced between patients, there are still particles in the tubing from previous patients and sealing the end causes turbulence in the tubing. There is a possibility of some particles returning to the front of the evacuator and being deposited in your mouth. This information is going out as fast as possible, but some readers here may not know it yet.One good thing is there are sanitary flushing systems available to use between each patient, but I wouldn’t want to get any of that stuff in my mouth either.Enjoy your Dentist’s visit!

I wish they did still use the spit bowl! So much more satisfying to spit out all that crud they left in your mouth instead of letting them suction out the water (and leave the crud.)

They still have the spit-sink here in Deutschland. We’re not better; we’re only 10 years after everybody else.

Hey, my pretty good dentist for decades still has a “spit-sink” in his operatories, as well as vacuum evacuators. The spitter is used only after an in-mouth session, to rinse out any little bit of blood a dental probe during cleaning may have drawn….

Wares gramma chick win use kneed hare? That better?

You don’t want a proctologist or a dentist that got into college on a basketball scholarship.

That guy ought to make a living as a motivational speaker.

Was his last dental review entirely cussing?