I Swear to Tell the Tooth: Humorous (and Sometimes Touching) Tales from a Globe-Trotting Dentist's Storied Life: 1 (Tooth Is Stranger Than Fiction)

Quirky patients one-of-a-kind employees and farm animals set the stage for this humorous tender and sometimes irreverent saga of Dr. Carroll Jamess dental practice. Headphone-clad patients bop in the dental chair while Dr. James tries to work on the moving target; a long-timer happily drops her pants to show off her latest surgical scar; and a lost cell phone drops out of a patients boxer shorts.You just cant make this stuff up.Working from his rural home office Dr. James juggles family patients staff and occasional livestock as he struggles to maintain his professional decorum. After thirty years of scatterbrained staff and distinct clientele he often finds himself simply shaking his head with a laugh. Alongside the colorful assistants and hilarious antics we learn just how challenging--and perilous--dental school can be as well as witnes the acquisition of a half-built farmette certain to take years to finish a few errant horses an intriguing trip to Russia with US-USSR Bridges for Peace and poignant lessons that when youre not chuckling at the authors childhood (and sometimes adult) mischief are sure to touch your heart.