V-2nd, why dentists?

[Mark Kohut]

Why are teeth portals of bad news in P? Why are dentists bad guys?
1) it is not like he spares other docs like head docs either...

2) Dentists. From childhood associated with pain by so many of us. Like
a toothache, once again, known to most of us. A toothache is a quotidian example
of existential pain--perhaps, to bloviate toothsomely , a personal example of 
mysterious 'evil' in the universe.
Why, O Lord, am I suffering?  


That Nicholson-Corman movie caught our perhaps-latent feeling that dentists, 
with that drilling, at
least seem sadistic and easily can be. The power to abuse while we are helpless 
is structural. 

That teeth go bad from use, especially misuse, is their inherent vice, so to 
speak. If we take in
nothing but sugar and don't clean, they rot. The Golden Fang brings rot into 
America? 

There is an incredible example of self-surgery on teeth in Tinkers. Gunter Grass 

used them and dentists
metaphorically in his seventies novel Local Anaesthetic. Solzhenitsyn has 
written,
"a man with a toothache is a completely different person from a man without 
one.
Or close to that.

 Geo Washington had soft teeth and lifelong problems, making 
wooden ones for
his mouth. The founding father of America needed lots of dentistry