dentists

"Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find...a dead slug, a live spider, hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it...?"--Back cover.

Photographs and brief text describe the work of a dentist and dental assistant.

The Great McGinty: An opportunist turns corruption into a promising political career but struggles to stay on top when he tries to go honest. Christmas in July: Hope springs eternal when an office clerk mistakenly believes he's won a coffee slogan challenge and spends the 'prize money'. The Lady Eve: It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir falls for a con woman with a shady past. Sullivan's Travels: a wealthy director wants to find 'real' people for his next great film. The Palm Beach Story: Money makes the world go 'round, or so Gerry believes when she decides to divorce her struggling husband to support him by marrying a millionaire. The Great Moment: This stirring biopic follows the fascinating life of W.T.G. Morton, a 19th century dentist who successfully develops the first anesthesia. Hail the Conquering Hero: A quirky soldier gets an unexpected homecoming when a group of uproarious Marines decides to 'make' a hero out of the comic misfit.

Photographs and simple text introduce the work done by a dentist.

Miss Hearse tells the children a dentist is coming to the school to exam their teeth and they all imagine the horrible things he will do to them.

Text and photographs explore the job of dentists.

Doctor De Soto treated the toothaches of all kinds of animals, but he had a special problem when a fox with a toothache came into his office.

A crocodile gets a toothache and goes to the dentist, but when he gets there the crocodile discovers that the dentist is just as afraid of him as he is of the dentist.