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Quotes About Dentistry

It was just as well that neither Wyatt nor Morgan inquired about the provenance of the teeth themselves, for Wyatt's new ones were among the hundreds of thousands collected from battlegrounds, sorted by type and size, and made available for restorative dentistry for many years after the war. With John Henry's sketches and detailed measurements to go by, his cousin Robert had found a pair of upper centrals that matched Morgan's closely.
~ Mary Doria Russell
My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!
~ Kenneth Fisher
Men and women used pliers to pull teeth from the dead and, for years after, false teeth were known as Waterloo Teeth. Some
~ Bernard Cornwell
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
~ William Collins
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
~ Bill Bryson
I had horrendous teeth. I had 10 years of orthodontist treatment, everything you can think of.
~ Phoebe Fox
I don't have but two teeth, but thank the Lord they both hit together.
~ Karen Cecil Smith
Forty percent of the new dental school graduates were women, although as late as 1970 the dean of the University of Texas dental school had insisted on admitting no more than two women in every class of a hundred because "girls aren't strong enough to pull teeth.
~ Gail Collins
Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
~ Larry Wilcox
A lineup of ladies with their virtue for rent and a lot of mileage on the clock greeted us with smiles that would only have excited a student of dentistry.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Of course skills count, but they do count less in highly random environments than they do in dentistry.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is possible to chip your tooth while eating gummy bears when a plane is landing.
~ Chelsea Handler
It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.
~ Ken Loach
Too many Negroes go into medicine and dentistry merely for selfish purposes, hoping thereby to increase their income and spend it in joyous living. They have the ambition to own fine automobiles, to dress handsomely, and to figure conspicuously in society. The practice of these professions among poor Negroes yields these results.
~ Carter G. Woodson
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.
~ Bernie Sanders
One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
~ William Hazlitt
Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh?" I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.
~ Cate Tiernan
Dentistry is not expensive, neglect is.
~ Dental saying
Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry
~ Heather Brewer
El ratón Pérez puede salvarte la vida (o a tus hijos) La doctora Patrick me introdujo en el uso de los dientes para almacenar células madre. Si en algún momento te quitan las muelas del juicio o a tus hijos se les caen los dientes de leche (los cuales tienen una concentración especialmente alta de células madre de pulpa dental) plantéate recurrir a una empresa como StemSave o National Dental Pulp Laboratory para conservarlos con la finalidad de usarlos más adelante.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I'm not really sure if I will go back to school. I'm getting old! So I'm not really sure if I have time to go back to school to be a dentist. But hopefully I'll be an Olympic gold medalist.
~ Tori Bowie
I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.
~ Unknown
Deborah and I went in past a sculpture that looked like a geometry lesson having sex in a hardware bin and we walked straight to the back, where a door announced, DR. J. LONOFF, DDS: COSMETIC DENTISTRY.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I played with a few local bands in the West Country, where I grew up, but when I was 18, I moved to London, which at that time was probably the most exciting musical city in the world. I was supposed to be studying dentistry, but all the time I was looking for a band to join.
~ Roger Taylor