Personal Oral Hygiene

Helping people clean and keep their teeth since 1961! 

 

"Life Behind the Mask"

(or "You are looking down in the mouth today")

The golden patient who knows how hard you work, faithfully keeps appointments, diligently follows hygiene instructions and is a great pleasure to serve makes all the  tribulations worthwhile. Too bad they are not all golden. If you are this kind of patient, this page isn't for you. This page is for all the dedicated, hard working oral health care professionals who need a smile.

The frustrations of working in a dental office are extreme. No-shows, cranky patients, salesmen, irate patients, horrible children and the never ending stream of patients who swear they brush and floss every day (but still have plaque you could wade in) are just some of the problems that people in a dental office deal with every day. This section of your web site is dedicated to those patients. The stories we publish here are reprinted with permission, and are intended solely to amuse. We want to banish the demons of ignorance, and through satire and parody we hope to bring a smile to the faces: "Behind the Mask".

Please help make this page a success by contributing your own stories, cartoons or experiences. For an idea of what we want to accomplish, go to the www.jocularity.com web site. There you will see a black humor page for nurses. So, dust off your typewriter, or computer, expel some frustration and submit your favorite story. This page is cheerful and dark, full of contradictions and full of jokes, wit, jests, tomfoolery, comedy-- high comedy, low comedy and broad comedy-- slapstick, low humor, broad humor, caricature, satire, whimsy, wordplay and puns. At least we intend it to be...

Our founder wrote these two stories in the early 1960's.