by Chris Barnard | May 17, 2011 | Dental Anxiety, Dental Humor
We have all sorts of reason for not keeping up with our dental appointments; the excuses range from our dog ate our appointment card to we didn’t get the reminder message sent in triplicate to our mobile phone, email, Facebook wall, Twitter profile, and personal...
by Chris Barnard | May 10, 2011 | Dental Humor
18 months ago Karen Butler went under anesthesia for some routine oral surgery; what followed was anything but the usual swelling, soreness, post-treatment instructions, and pain management prescriptions. When the haze from anesthesia began to dissipate, the Newport,...
by Chris Barnard | Apr 26, 2011 | Dental Humor
Do you know your dental hygienists first name? Do you really know your dentist? Do they have a family? Do they live locally? Where did they go to school? Any hobbies, charitable contributions, or other outside-of-dentistry interests? Have they ever performed emergency...
by Chris Barnard | Apr 7, 2011 | Dental Humor
In our ongoing efforts to promote socially connected and locally identifiable dentistry, we look north to Regina, Saskatchewan. That’s right. Regina. Saskatchewan. It’s better than Saskatoon. Or is it? We might get in trouble for that; if we were talking hockey or any...
by Chris Barnard | Mar 29, 2011 | Dental Care, Dental Humor
According to Loretta Frances Ichord in “Toothworms and Spider Juice: An Illustrated History of Dentistry,” people of ancient times considered the pain of a toothache was caused by a toothworm that had appeared spontaneously or bored its way into the tooth....
by Chris Barnard | Feb 8, 2011 | Dental Humor
Turns out this is kind of a popular dream, after hearing this from some people we decided to do some research. Again, in the interest of full disclosure (and what little humor we can possibly aspire to), this is completely unscientific, unconfirmed research – and we...
