Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for January 13, 2021

I would ordinarily find this funny. Especially because my dentist sends out postcards every 6 months. I might even email him this comic. Except that I know that, years ago, he did have to produce dental records so that the body of a murdered young woman could be identified. She had been a co-worker of mine, and a casual acquaintance. Those were some tough days.

Won’t matter because you’ll be dead.

I’m debating keeping the next appointment without having the vaccine yet.

Don’t know where you are (I’m in Toronto), but had my done in Sept. And they took lots of precautions! Only the cleaning process, though, no polishing…

Just had an eye Dr appt last week, and same….lots of precautions.

Ive had the same dentures for about 20 years and haven’t seen the dentist who made them since

Doubt they would be any help in identifying me

Dentists, huh? Glorified sado-masochists.

Teeth are teeth, but his handiwork will be easily identified in my assortment of crowns.

Twenty years ago, my dentist wrote an essay on having to help identify bodies found in the 9/11 wreckage by their dental records. It was definitely not what he’d signed up for when he went to dental school.

It’s one I would pay attention to…..