Hail to the art of dentistry!

After my friend Gary the dentist took a look at my chipped front tooth and started the needle on its journey I was able to say, "What are you going to do?"

"Fill it."

I had too many devices in my mouth to speak, but I listened to him regale his assistant with dental school stories about super glue and the cyanide gas you get from heating it.

Then he handed me a mirror.

You can't even see where the chip was! He explained that they now use a new compound that achieves the hardness and matches the color of the tooth.

He put a bit of the substance in my hand, and it immediately hardened just as he said it would, while it was still warm.

I grinned at my bro a bit later, and he couldn't see any sign of a chip in my tooth. Not a line. Not a change of color. Nothing. Hurray for dentists who keep up to speed on what's going on in their field. I should be as diligent in mine.