The dentist-in-glasses thing is especially horrible when the blood and enamel dust/tissue that are being ground out of your mouth end up on his lenses and it's all hovering right in front of you. All in all, though, I discovered that I can let someone perform all kinds of painful, bloody operations that I can't see and have no control over if a) I breathe deeply enough, and b) the alternative is months and months of dying nerves and abscesses and hardly being able to chew and eat.
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link