Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1996/02/09
Subject: Re: Request for dental horror stories

Phil <saxophil@ihug.co.nz> writes:

> Does anybody have any stories/ urban myths or otherwise concerning
> dentists and things dental. I would be very grateful.

Well, the standard one is that the dentist gasses his patient and
has his way with her.  Plays on all our fears of helplessness and
mistrust.  It may have actually happened, but the part about the
x-rays of the toothbrush is kind of hard to believe.  (The missing
kidney is right out.)

I was amazed to see on Hill Street Blues where the cops ran a sting
operation on just such a dentist.  The series also had an oriental
restaurant that was caught kidnapping cats, and sewers full of
alligators.  Seems to me there was a groom who embarasses the
unfaithful bride at the altar, too.  Sometimes I wondered if their
scriptwriters were doing all their research reading Brunvand.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil