Why I Will Always Remember to Floss from Now On

Does anyone else remember this Simpson’s episode?

 

At the Painless Dentistry (formerly Painful Dentistry), the dentist interrogates Ralph.

DR. WOLFE
How often do you brush, Ralph?

RALPH
Three times a day, sir.

DR. WOLFE
(menacingly) Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?

RALPH
Alright, I don't brush! (crying) I don't brush!

DR. WOLFE
Let's look at a picture book - the Big Book of British Smiles.

He shows him a book of people with crooked and missing teeth.

RALPH
That's enough! (crying) That's enough!

 

Replace brush with floss and “I don’t” with very rarely and that was me in my dentist’s office last week.

 

 

This was me when the dentist told me how many cavities I had. I did however, take it like a champ and got them done in one shot; I was in the dentist’s chair for 2.5 hours. When I went back to work my entire face was frozen and people kept coming up to me with a look of concern asking what had happened to me. I was talking like I just had a stroke and trying to avoid answering the phone all afternoon. Did I mention that it took hours for the drilling sensation to go away? Thank God for dental insurance because it would have cost me a bloody fortune if I didn’t have it. Even with it, it was rather painful.

So take it from me people. Floss every night. Otherwise you will have your dentist and your dental hygienist giving you stern disapproving looks and coming at you with pointy rotating miniature drill bits. I for one have learnt my lesson.