For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 23, 2012

Even a good dentist needs a good laugh if he’s “filling” a little down.

I’ve got a dentist appointment on Monday.

Nothing wrong with a little humor to lighten things up.

You see… that’s why he’s a dentist but we all hang out on GoComics.

The last panel might work better in a real dentist’s office than in a comic strip….

I mean, it’s hard to get the likes of us to see what’s wrong with bad jokes…. I live for ’em!(as anyone who reads my comments could (sniffle) tell you…)

if a dentist can’t get you to shut up who can?

Too much laughing gas…

As a dentist friend once said, “Always speak politely to someone standing over you with a pointed object.”

It takes a dentist with good humour to be cheerful while looking down someones mouth.

@WW2 Marine Veteran: Would a proctologist or a urologist also be cheerful at his work?

they’re from the same mold

My dad was a dentist and he would tell jokes as he was working. We always teased him that he had a captive audience. :-)

I’d laugh even @ dumb jokes like those.

A judge said to a dentist: “Do you promise to pull the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth?”

Then there’s this corny gag:A woman asked her husband after a dentist appointment: “Why did you hit the dentist?”The man answered “He got on my nerves.”

=)

I had a dentist who insisted on trying to engage me in deep theological discussions while my mouth was full of fingers or cotton or some other impediment. On a tangential topic, it’s said that dentists have the highest rate of suicide among health professionals. Supposedly, it’s because those who take their own lives can’t live with the burden of being the cause of so much pain for so many people (regardless of whether they’re really causing pain or not).