For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 11, 2022

If the chiropractor was a skilled dentist then he’d understand what John said.

If he was a skilled chiropractor he would have asked the question before he had him lie down.

As a heavy furniture and piano mover, I can sure identify with dentists going to chiropractors a lot. Lifting those heavy tooth brushes and tooth drills sure takes a toll out of one’s back!

My back surgeon had a bad back, he said it was from bending over the operating table all the time…

That’s dentist speak for “about the time you walked into the exam room”.

Nice view of John’s butt in Panel #2.

That’s when mine started too

At least he isn’t, um, “smiling” at the moment.

Why didn’t he go to an M.D. or D.O. and get have x-rays taken before treatment?

Revenge for all the times John asked a patient with dental instruments stuffed in their mouth how they were doing.

Now, is this a riff on the old joke about dentists putting three things in their patient’s mouth, then asking how the kids are?

Ha. The answer to that question is “I stood up.” I had the same problem once. First(and only) time I ever walked with a cane. It’s trickier than the movies would have you think.

The vibes I’m getting from the chiropractor make me suspect he’ll be asking John for a discount on his next dental visit.

Dontcha just love when the dental hygienist tries to carry on a conversation with you, and your mouth is full of apparatae? /s, or is it s/ ?

Patient’s who see a chiropractor, especially men, never take their shirts off, and stay dressed.

HA! Payback for when the dentist asks a question of the patient with his mouth full of cotton, etc..that can’t be answered “yes” or “no”.

I’m being picky here, I know, but isn’t there supposed to be an opening for the face when lying on the stomach?

Sounds Familiar…

Um, why is John’s shirt off? That is not usually what a chiropractor requires. Maybe Canada is different? Ha!

Sounds like a dental answer to me!

Can you repeat that?

Looks like the chiropractor needs a dentist. Maybe he can strike a deal?

If you’re that relaxed,it means you t rust the doctor.

It might be stuff for comedy to illustrate, or to show on a film, a dentist or a hygienist leaning over a patient, but in real life it never happened in my case.

My dentists never lean over me. The patient chair and the dentist’s chair are both adjustable. Even when he did work, way at the back, he made my chair lean slightly toward his side, and he uses his arms and hands and looks in the mirror… Even the hygienist positions the chair in such a way, that she never leans over me. She uses the mirror very deftly so that she only has to stretch out her arms and hands.

Nightie-nite, John.

That’s a common response. Jon’s pain may have started at hrgfltz, but I have heard others say that their pain began at bnzfxqs.

Can a grocery store cart collector throw out his back when hauling carts back to the lobbies from the parking lot? I think if he collected too many at once in the parking lot which slows down the process as the hooked rope is at a fixed length (7 ft 8 in; 2.34 m).

Its like when dentists try to talk to you! Duh! I have a mouth full of gauze and crap!