HULK HATE CAVITIES!
Yesterday I wound up having two straight hours of emergency dental work. I cracked a tooth on Monday and so far, the week hasn’t been kind.
As they were strapping me into the chair and the doctor above me was asking if it was safe, a typical concern popped into my head:
Does Bruce Banner go to the dentist?
Really, now. Does he have just stellar teeth, brushing and flossing with great regularity? Or does he suffer through any discomforts? Because I just can’t imagine a dentist appointment going well for him. Then again, he is a scientist so maybe he can look more clinically at the process and might not have the bone-numbing terror that I get at the dentist’s office. Maybe he’s all business.
Then again, the man is rather touchy (well, classically he’s rather touchy as opposed to know where he’s sort of non-existent). Personally, I think he might last through the numbing, but the sound of a drill going towards your mouth and the smell of burnt tooth might make him angry.
Maybe they just knock him out completely.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I think the dentist’s offices would just lie to him and tell him they’re completely booked up. Or they would schedule appointments for him, and move in the interim.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
i imagine mister fantastic has some kind of device for that. unstable molocules make dentistry fun and easy!
that, or the angrier hulk gets, the stronger his enamel gets?
May 29th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I wonder about this sort of thing all the time. But in HULK #288, he actually goes to the dentist. He’s in one of those “Hulk’s body, Banner’s mind” phases though, but it’s revealed that the Hulk himself is immune to tooth decay. Maybe it translates back to Banner after each transformation – the size-shifting and the gamma radiation making those pearly whites extra pearly & white.
I’m just wrapping up a Read Every Hulk Comic marathon. These are the things I’ve learned.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Andrew: Oh, but that would be an inconvenience! And I know if I had a toothache and I got to my appointment and the office had moved…. I’d be pretty mad.
Sean: Is there nothing Mister Fantastic can’t do? =D And, personally, I like to think that all the genius types look out for one another, so yeah. I could buy Fantastic Dentistry.
Jon: YOU SIR HAVE WON MY INTERNET. Hulk #288? Oh time to hit the back issues! But, we have seen Banner pretty battered after a transformation before; maybe not as bad as he should have been considering but enough dishevel to make me weight that ‘transfer of teeth strength’ idea. I’m not sure the radiation could kill plaque either…
Glad to know someone else is thinking the same gamma thoughts. =)