For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 11, 2018

The special joys of pediatric dentistry — you never have to worry about your teddy bear getting cavities or needing a root canal.

Adorable. He is a good children dentist.

What a nice man John is.

Now that’s a great dentist.

That was great! John knows how to connect with his youngest patients!

John just made a convert of the kid and guaranteed the mom will remember him for their next dental visits

Awww! That is a great guy :))

Back in the 1950s – 1960s my brother and I went to a pediatrician who would do something like this while giving kids their shots. While we were engrossed in watching her examine the office Teddy bear, the nurse would sneak up and give us the vaccines so quickly that we almost never felt it.

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is good bedside manner!

If only they taught more of that than how to keep checking the clock and how to bill for proceedures.

“It’s a trap!”

Wow, how sweet. <3

That was sweet!!! ♥♥♥

Awww, how sweet. I hate sweet.

I mentioned this in comments yesterday, but maybe today is more appropriate. I am a supporter of the Fairchild Society, which is a private organization that pays for dentistry for special needs children. They are allied with the better known Shriners Hospital.

www.hfgrotto.org/donate/fairchild-society/

Since Lynn Johnston made so much on a strip about her dentist husband, I would imagine she is quite familiar with and supportive of this charity.

I wish I knew more men who liked children. I need to expand my field of male acquaintances.

My hospitals periodically have “Teddy Bear Hospital” events where kids can bring their toy animals and painlessly experience the ER process through them.

Nicely done Doctor

There was a recent news article where a surgeon stitched up his patient’s Teddy bear’s torn arm before the actual surgery on the boy.