Disembodied wrote: hemang25 seems to have a sideline in cosmetic dental implants in Mumbai, anyway, in case you're interested
Yeah, I noticed that... and I've been to Mumbai (or Bombay, as it was then). As for my gnashers:
The intrepid denizen of the spacelanes, fearless veteran combateer, master assassin and contrabandista extraordinaire, entered the dental surgery, humming nonchalantly, and calmly seated himself in the ‘chair of pain’... the dentist looked-up, grinning.
‘Good morning, sir… first, just a few little injections to numb the jaw and gum… then we’ll saw that tooth in half and extract it.’
‘No need for injections, my good man… I’ll just mentally chant ‘om mane padme hum’, and all will be well… pain is all in the mind, after all… just rip the damn thing out.’
Yeah right… I was quaking in my hand-tooled, cuban-heeled boots… like a virgin Jameson at Riedquat, who’s just been jumped by twenty bandits.
It wasn't as bad as the wisdom tooth extractions that I’ve had over the years (a molar this time)… but much worse than Monday’s… and now, as the injections begin to wear-off, the throbbing starts.
<reaches for the codeine>