--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2001-04-11T12:10:00' draft: false title: Dentistry --- This morning I sat in a dentist's chair for over two hours undergoing a [Root Planing](http://www.dentalreview.com/scaling_root_planing.htm). It was uncomfortable, but necessary. Unlike the last time I underwent this procedure, the anesthetic worked. I can't feel a thing in my lower mouth and chin, and so I'm dribbling. I just re-read that article I linked to, and then it struck me that the amount of money I made this quarter tutoring Calculus is exactly the amount I have to pay the dentist to scrape it off my teeth.