Dentally Incorrect

by Kyle Patton, associate editor, Dentaltown magazine

Movies done dentally.

Fluoride Attraction
Successful dentist Dr. Stan Salinger just opened his second practice and for him and his wife/office manager, life is good. But soon after a new hygienist begins working at the second practice, Salinger makes a mistake no married man should. Some messes will take more than an ultrasonic to cleanup, and there’s no code to the procedure this doc has done ...

Blade Scaler
The year is 2049 and dentistry has evolved: GPs now do everything, and orthodontists have been hunted to near-extinction. When a fugitive group of specialists escape a moon prison and try to re-establish their craft on Earth, burned-out private practitioner Dr. Cosmo Oberon reluctantly agrees to a series of PPOs aimed at stealing the lifeblood away from the renegade band-and-wire bandits.

The Flossinator
Disguised as a “booth babe,” a practice- management cyborg travels from 2079 to 2025 to convert Dr. Bronn Jonner, the last remaining dentist who doesn’t use MolarNet, the most sophisticated do-it-all software system the industry has ever known. Can Jonner make it out of the tradeshow exhibit hall without giving in to MolarNet’s cloud-based pressures?

Compositegeddon
A giant cavity hurdles through space, threatening to spread throughout the galaxy. The only solution: Drill into its surface and fill with a space-age composite material. The world wants to send its top dentist, Dr. Barry Pamper, who agrees—but only if he can bring his staff, for the CE credits and team-building opportunity. (Some might wonder: Wouldn’t it be easier to train astronauts to be dentists? To those people, we say ... shut up.)