MY dentist (or at least my oral surgeon) is nuts. But nicely nuts.

He's going to give me some general anaesthesia on June 29. This time he's going to use a RUBBER mallet, because the wooden one left noticable dents.

Actually, he's going to open up my gum and screw posts into the sockets he's already put there. Then I'm going to get a permanent bridge put in.

It's really amazing what dentists can do these days. My first dentist was incompetent, a public health dentist who rarely used anaethesia even for extractions -- he was later convicted by the state of Illinois of fraud, among other things.