Dentally Incorrect

Historical Humor

And now a trip through the Wayback Machine: Did you know that Dentaltown has run Dentally Incorrect since November 2001?

Back then, it featured random jokes or hoary observations—women, they have too many shoes, am I right? Ha-ha!—but a few years later, dental-specific content began to appear in the issue, courtesy of Townies who shared some of their favorite stories and more. In honor of our 20th anniversary, here’s one of those installments.

10 Years Ago (September 2009)
We asked Townies to share the most embarrassing or stupid things they’ve done in front of a patient. Our Top 10 list:

1. “My worst was setting a patient’s bib on fire.”
2. “I did accidentally let one out while talking to a patient.”
3. “I commented to a woman that she had sizable mamelons for an adult her age. The look on her face was priceless.”
4. “This little old lady is telling me a sad story. … I dropped the F-bomb very casually, only word that came out of my mouth. Had no way of recovering, so I didn’t say a thing and kept working.”
5. “I once missed my chair because it had rolled a little too far away. Nothing like ‘sitting’ down to start treatment and ending up on the floor.”
6. “I asked a lady once, ‘So, when is your baby due?’ before looking at the health history.”
7. “In dental school, I took a full-mouth X-ray on a patient with both upper and lower RPDs in place.”
8. “My fly was open! Who knows how long it had been open.”
9. “Went to give a PSA block in oral surgery department in dental school and numbed up the guy’s eye (lateral recturs, I believe).”
10. “I did a total face plant onto the patient. I leaned, stool tipped over, not pretty.”