Word: dentistly
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...that encounter the dentist had not seemed a dentist, but a has-been, a once-dentist, brought back from the junkyards of time to haunt the fourth floor of the University Health Services, a green, sickly, pale no-good, who was only strong because of the arsenal of machinery around him. And knowing this, that only the power of the machinery made the dentist strong, the patient had hated...
...patient answered. He had met the dentist once before, several months before, when the dentist--an oral surgeon, the nurse told him--had extracted two of his wisdom teeth. At that first encounter, the patient had hated the dentist, not with the hatred--that of the weak for the strong...
...different. The dentist's causal greeting, his coy smile at the nurse who stood nearby, and his jaunty, almost arrogant manner took the patient surprise. He hadn't prepared himself for this. He started at the dentist's body, strangely supple and relaxed, felt his won body small and weak, and then saw the dentist reaching for the huge, infernal, hated, death-inferring hypodermic needle that the nurse held out to him. The patient knew what was different this time. He was afraid...
...patient opened his mouth, he thought of taking off his glasses to avoid looking at the steel glint in the dentist's eyes. But before he could, the rapid-fire, machine-gun-bullet orgasms of pain were exploding in his jaw. Jab! Jab! Jab! The patient jammed his eyes shut. His whole body was tight, as time after time he felt the needle piercing deep into his gums, driving its payload of novocaine into his bloodstream. "Just relax," he heard the nurse saying. The injections were done. He slumped back into the chair...
...worst was not over. The dentist returned, and the patient, having taken off his glasses, could only see him dimly. "How does your mouth feel now?" the dentist asked matter-of-factly. Then without waiting for the patient's reply, he took a long dull instrument from his cabinet and, with it, gently pocked the patient's reply, he took a long dull instrument from his cabinet and, with it, gently pocked the patient's upper tooth. Feeling nothing, the patient relaxed and then, in an instant, realized the dentist was pushing harder and harder at the tooth...