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[Stephen Chin]

After 27 years fixing teeth, 2 things motivates me to get to work eagerly. First is my new duck poo yellow chair which I love playing with, the other is this drum sander sitting akwardly in the middle of the sterilising and stock room, (much to the disguist of my nurse. The promise is , once I clear up my workshop, I will remove it....1 1/2 years and counting )

Many a lunch break, you will find me smoothing a 20mm thick board to 5 mmm, especially when the patient pisses me off,,,,, and thats everyday. And that little GMC dust collector is a real gem.
 
For Johan, my work room pic. Rumour has it that theres more saw dust than plaster, or acrylic dust in there now. Sorry, no torture chamber, just chockers of everything nice

My nurse plays a vital role, she holds front desk and the patients at bay, while I play with my puzzles in the back. Least she knows what an Icosahedron, dodecahedron and Triacontahedron are, and shes a good critic. Occationally we work

Now you know why I keep my day job,,,,

[Canuck]

I don't know how to reply to this

[Johan Heyns]

Hi Stephen, as we can see, there are a million ways to do something if you really want to. 

Don't think you can mollycoddle me to that duck poo chair!    Just to the right there hangs all the stuff that I'm talking about.

Keep up the puzzle work, the other stuff we will allow you to do occasionally.

 

[Stephen Chin]

Hey Johan,

Bringing 21 st century dentistry up to date.
I am blessed and  priviledged to withness 3 generations go from full dentures and extractions, to full teeth, no fillings
We are even putting teeth back in, rather than take out ie Implants
Very few professions pays you to reduce pain, nor give you unique tools to make puzzles
We are akin to the Police, never available when we are needed, feared and hated when we are around. Except for kids, they climb all over my chair and press all my buttons

Pics of the waiting room, notice the puzzles table on the left. The trains and model helis are my previous lifes. Unlike other clean and neat and sterile professional rooms, mines got dirt  on the floor and walls ,with things everywhere. Bit like your lounge room, very homey and relaxing. Good distraction for what you are about to receive,,,,,anybody need a root canal??

[Canuck]

That's too cool, puzzles to torture you at the 'Dentist', while your being tortured by the 'Dentist'...

[Johan Heyns]

Eish Stephen,

How can you live with yourself.  Making them think its just fun and games and then you poke them with that needle so you can do your stuff without the screaming!!

Seriously though, Keep up the good work.  With parents paying sweets to keep kids quiet, you are entitled to your corner.   

[FrankPotts]

I do remember reading somewhere that dental tools are very good at cutting holes in glass bottles, so if you want to put arrows through bottles it mayt be worth visiting your local torture chamber.

[Johan Heyns]

Pardon me for a moment, please," said the dentist to the victim, "but before beginning this work I must have my drill."
"Good heavens, man!" exclaimed the patient irritably. "Can't you pull a tooth without a rehearsal?"

[Johan Heyns]

A man went to the dentist because his tooth was hurting.
The dentist told him after the examination that he need a root canal.

The man replied ?O.K. lets do it?.

The dentist told him he will feel a pinch when he gives him the shot of the numbing agent.

The man says ?NO Doc I am allergic to that?.

The doctor tells him O.K. we are going to give you Nitrous Oxide.

The man says ?No Doc I am allergic to the gas.?

So then the doctor gives him 2 pills with a glass of water & the man takes it.

The doctor comes back in 10 minutes & the man says ?Doc will those 2 blue pills kill the pain??

The doctor replies ?no, that was Viagra.?

The man says ?Viagra!, I don?t need that! What?s that going to do for me??

The doctor replies, ?I know, But it will give you something to hang on to?.

Need I say more!!!!