Comments on: Painless Dentist

By: roaf

roaf — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:35:52 +0000

That’s interesting. Seems to be less the case with the younger people, I find.
I didn’t know Sardinians wee short, either!

By: simaldeff

simaldeff — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:20:03 +0000

I wouldn’t like to pass as a racist, so don’t misunderstand me, but the fact that most Japaneses (not most bu a lot let’s say) have horrible teethes is due to their ethnicity. In fact Japanese in general lack a frontal bone - I don’t remember exactly which one - (it’s a tendency … not every japanese people have this problem) in the upper mandible, infact they don’t have enough space for all their 32 teethes which makes the bigger ones (a.k.a. the canines) comes forward (or sometime backward) in the mandible.
That’s why a lot of japanese (Polynesians and Indonesians too by the way) have this “ants mandible”-shaped frontal teethes formations.
Ok, I know this sounds not precise … but that’s my father that explained it to me and he wasn’t precise either and I’m not a dentist, I’m a programmer (a.k.a computer geek).
BTW this ethnicity characteristic is the same as the Scotsmen having ginger-heads or people from Sardinia being really short.

By: roaf

roaf — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:12:26 +0000

Hey, I’m British! And my teeth are …er…OK… kind of.
Seriously, though, I think the Japanese leave us in the dust when it comes to shocking teeth.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:05:49 +0000

“For some reason I picture the Japanese as the British equivalent when it comes to dental hygiene….”

LOL!!

I think the Japanese win….er.. lose that race!

By: Viet

Viet — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:03:12 +0000

For some reason I picture the Japanese as the British equivalent when it comes to dental hygiene….

By: dragonlife

dragonlife — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:59:51 +0000

Holy Macaroni!
What does he use? A hammer?
Roaf, not to change the subject, some someone found my sushi blog with the search term, “girl wrapped in cellophane”!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles

By: Nick Ramsay

Nick Ramsay — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:14:15 +0000

For a whole year, I put off having a wisdom tooth removed because of all the horror stories about Japanese dentists. When the pain became too much, I gave in and went to the dentist. Within 15 minutes, the thing was out and the pain was gone. The dentist did a great job!

By: southofreality

southofreality — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:59:13 +0000

I’ve had my teeth cleaned a few times here in Japan and every time, I think the guy spends more time dragging that cleaning tool across my f’ing gums rather than my teeth. Last time, I was spitting out blood for two days.

Goddamned Butchers!

By: roaf

roaf — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:02:47 +0000

I remember being doped up on morphine for a couple of days after I had my wisdom teeth removed. Quite a pleasant feeling!

Yeah, Simaldeff you’re right, it should be “Painless Patient”!

By: Chris B

Chris B — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:41:58 +0000

In Hawaii they put a little nose mask on me and gassed me with sodium pentathol (sic)
I did not feel any pain…I did not feel anything.