PRAISE THE DENTAL SURGEON (adapted from the song on the colorectal surgeon)

A good friend of mine sent me a video of The Colorectal Surgeon Song by Canadian musical comedy duo Bowser and Blue and suggested writing lyrics from a dental perspective. It took me two weeks of intermittent writing between play practices, dental college examinations and my dental practice to come up with the following. Hope to put it to song and record a youtube video soon.

We praise the lowly dental surgeon

misunderstood and much maligned

toiling away after years of study 

Brave in the face of words unkind 

Respect the lowly dental surgeon 

He's the one you'll meet some day 

Working hard with tools of torture 

Steady is the hand that fights decay 

Be kind to the lowly dental surgeon 

He is one of the bravest who 

Hopes that you won’t bite his fingers 

Fixing you up so you can chew 

When it comes to spreading fear he starts with Open wide 

And when he picks that iron hook the terror starts inside 

You may think when he's smiling that he's criminally insane 

But only the dental surgeon knows the pleasure from your pain 

Respect the lowly dental surgeon

it's a calling of the brave 

concentrating on the effort 

when he's got a tooth to save 

Why choose to be a dental surgeon 

it's one of those mysterious things 

Is it because in that profession 

There are always openings 

Don't curse the lowly dental surgeon 

when you find that you can't chew

Spare a thought for his daily grind 

For after all he has fillings (feelings) too 

He sailed through dental school he became familiar with the drill 

And then he learnt what followed was the fill, the pill and bill 

A dentist he wanted to be more than everything 

His bride thought he worked too much cos she didn't feel a thing 

We praise the lowly dental surgeon 

misunderstood and much maligned

toiling away after years of study

Brave in the face of words unkind