My dentist joke jinxed me.

[vash]

My friend and dentist just retired; two weeks ago.

I joked that I would probably have a dental emergency right afterwards. We laughed and penciled in a date my wife and I could take him and his wife out for dinner.

Well. A mere Two weeks. I felt a crunch and my upper rear molar now has a hole in it. I was eating saag paneer! You do not even need teeth to eat it! My tooth either cracked or a filling dropped out. Or both.

I’m between dentists! I have an appointment end of October with a new dentist. I called her and she squeezed me in for Monday morning. In the meantime one of the other dentist called me and asked me to come in. He took a look, poked at it, and said I’d be fine until Monday. Phew! Simple filling replacement.

No more dentist jokes ever. At least I have something to talk about at the celebration dinner with my buddy dentist. Sheesh.

I’m shopping dentists now. The guy that saw me is a solid contender. If Monday dentist steers me to a root canal, I’m stepping out and moving on.

[MAS956]

I just changed dentists - it was oddly stressful. Must be my retirement brain, which reminds me of a past experience:

Me: Doctor, grandma seems to be obsessing about bowel movements.
Doctor: Once old people stop having sex, they find other things to obsess about.

I used to think that was funny....

[Zeke]

My GP is retiring Nov 1. I've been with this guy for 10 years. Any other dr that I had any experience with all seem detached. I've never seen this fellow anywhere except in his office. If I was in the hospital, it wasn't his usual so someone else came in. Yet we have a rapport.

The one before him that was great retired and the one before that one got ill and quit. This dr is younger than I, the other 2 were my age.

The one in the middle drove a 993TT. We used to talk about cars while people were in the waiting room. He didn't care, he liked to talk cars. He lusted for a 918. I got him to go to the Luftgekühlt.

[masraum]

Saag paneer? WTF?!? You could gum that stuff to death!

Glad it ended up not being a big deal. I would think you'd have enough good karma built up to completely preempt this sort of thing.

[Steve Carlton]

My dad was friends with our family dentist and was his CPA. One time my dad was in there and Dr. Purrington was making worried sounds for a bit, then seemed to lighten up. My dad asked what happened and he said "Well, I was worried about that blood until I realized it was yours."