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We explore the anxieties, costs, and humor surrounding dental visits and share personal anecdotes about navigating the dental landscape. Our conversations dive into fears, innovations in dental technology, and the importance of transparency in dental care.

• Discussing the shared fear of dental visits 
• Sharing personal stories about avoidance and consequences 
• Highlighting the financial reality of dental care 
• Navigating children's dental health and costs 
• Discussing technological advancements in dentistry 
• Exploring future innovations in dental practices 
• Emphasizing the importance of open communication with dentists

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony.
Welcome back everybody toanother episode of top shelf

(00:34):
stories.
My name is chris, that is jay,this is tony and I'm going to
talk about my trip to thedentist.
All right, now that you'vetested your eardrums, tested
your headphones, let's get intothe episode.
Yeah, what do you guys thinkabout the dentist?
I have dental insurance.
Yes, my wife is a stateemployee, I have some of the

(00:57):
finest dental insurance thestate of Wisconsin has available
.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I haven't been to the dentist in probably a decade,
since the last time I was raped.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I did that once, to not go to the dentist for a long
time.
It was a big mistake.
I'm still paying for it.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
They knock you out when they're pulling your teeth
and you come out with a rawbutthole.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You were raped.
That is a joke, right?
The dentist rape and molest you, and they put you under the gas
.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think, that's one of those stereotypes like asians
driving where it's true.
Let me hear about the asiandriving.
Let me hear that.
What is it that?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
they're bad at it.
Everybody knows that.
I see an asian in the car nextto me.
I just pull on the side of theroad.
I let him get a couple miles.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
What would be worse?
Being next to an Asian drivingor someone that's 95 driving
Asian?
What if it's like a 25-year-oldAsian?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh, even worse.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
No experience at bad driving.
Get the fuck out of here.
What do you mean?
You get your license at 16.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's nine years of driving.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Now if it's a 95-year-old Asian, I'm just
fucking putting my car into atree.
What?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
do you think I'm just going to do?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
it for them.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'll be out here, I'll just drive myself into a
tree.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
So yeah, it has been a long time for me, Tony you
into a tree.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
so yeah, it has been a long time for me, tony you.
Uh, last time I went was solast time I went was at the
start of covid, okay, and then Ihad a follow-up appointment
time to go.
I had a follow-up appointmentlike a year into covid and uh,
they told me I had to wear amask into the dentist and I

(02:45):
didn't understand what they wereasking me to do.
I'm like, are they just gonnacut a little hole in my tooth?
We do 3d technology.
They're just gonna cut onelittle hole in it and pop my
tooth?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
through it.
And all right, mr Tony, thismask is actually a gigantic
camera on the inside.
We're going to put it over yourmouth, then we're going to
operate with tools that are onlittle robotic radio robots.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
You got to wear a clear mask so they can see.
I don't know, I don't like it.
I feel like, physically andfinancially, they're rapists.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I didn't expect this, actually from you too.
I can't, I can't prove this isit because we have nice teeth,
or what well I mean you're thatyou can have nice teeth or bad
teeth and go to the dentistregularly or not go to the
dentist regularly.
Some people have really good,just at home oral hygiene well,
again, genetics plays a geneticrole.

(03:45):
I got super white trashy teeth.
I have all I have a european.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I like to call it european teeth english, english
teeth with low iron right.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
So because like half, my bloodline's european mutts,
like almost all of it you knowwhite european mutts, my side is
is great Mixed with all that.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Great genes when it comes to teeth, and my wife's
are fucking Swiss cheese filledin fucking fillings.
That's her teeth, I don't knowwhat it is.
My grandmother never had acavity in her life until she had
a child.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I've heard that my brother doesn't brush his
teeth.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
He doesn't get cavities.
He doesn't brush his teeth, hedoesn't get cavities.
Some people just have the thingthey call him Dragon because
his breath smells so bad.
That's his nickname.
I probably shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Tony wait.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
He works here.
Fuck Tony, call him Dragon.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Just go what's?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
up Dragon, He'll laugh, I bet.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't think that'll laugh.
I think he'll get real sadabout it.
No, he'll laugh.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
You guys sound like high fear, high anxiety, but
also like time.
Like the dentist is a pain inthe fucking ass it gets a pain
in the ass and it costs a ton ofmoney.
No matter what your way yousplit it, here's here's what I'm
looking for in my life.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'm looking for a dentist with the nickname the
carpenter.
I want somebody who's justgonna go in, fix my shit, leave
and not fuck me over wait, wait,wait rough or finished
carpenter either I.
I've went to the dentist in myadult life.
They tell me my teeth ain'tthat bad and I'm like who the

(05:33):
fuck are you kidding?
Right, my teeth are terrible.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
They're the worst fucking teeth you can have they
tell you it's good and they'relike so that you have a good
time they're like your teeth areoverall good and I'm like
whatever bitch I mean.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
This is like when a stripper tells you how hot you
are right exactly this is nowyou're getting it, yeah like oh,
you're so hot you won't evenaccept money from me.
Okay, but uh, then they sit medown in a conference room and
they go.
Let's go over a two-year planfor you this is true.
And it's always attached toabout $32,000 out of pocket, but

(06:16):
I think the real.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Are you trying to get a grill or something?
What the fuck are you going todo?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, they're like.
Your teeth are overall prettygood.
You could use like 24 implants.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I think there's 32 teeth in the adult mouth.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
And when we're done with the implants, we're going
to put crowns on all thoseimplants.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Depends if you count wisdom teeth, I think.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
They're putting crowns on the crowns.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Double crown, tori's, like can they're putting crowns
on the crowns?
Yeah, double crown.
Tori's like can I get goldcrowns even I know they're not
gold, but just can I get a goldcrown?
But uh, fucking.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
I think I lost all faith in dentists when my son
had to have oral surgery oralsurgery.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
That forbidden name, orthodontics, is the next
forbidden name but we won't geton that on this episode because
I haven't had that experience.
I don't think you guys haveeither.
I had braces but I'm prettysure my kid's gonna need that
shit.
But we'll get on that someother day uh.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
So when my kid needed his teeth fixed, they told,
told him he needed Jay.
I love when you gently touch myhand.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
These guys okay for you at home.
These guys decided that theywould be more cozy and
comfortable and conversationalif they were sitting on a couch.
So they're sitting on a couchat the other end of the table.
They're in both sides of thecouch, no one's sitting in the
middle, but they're bothspreading their hands together
and then apparently they fiddlefaddle with each other all the

(07:48):
time.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I didn't know that.
I'm going to be watching it now.
Hey, did you notice I flusteredwhen I touched your hand and.
I immediately got away from it,I know, like I thought it was a
spider or something, yeah, likeI whipped my hand away.
I know I didn't caress yourfingertips.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
As you just gently touched my fingertips, I'm going
to use the wood hand and kindof caress my hands Stop reaching
on hands.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I feel left out.
Tony, you are way more thanhalf on side of my couch.
It's my fucking couch.
Okay, fine, you're more thanhalf side on your couch, on my
side.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
You got all the cushion, I got all the top.
Fine, I'll take the cushion.
Then Back to oral surgery.
They tell, they tell us my kidneeds like nine crowns.
And I'm like, aren't these babyteeth?
And they're like well, thething is is, if you let them do
this, blah, blah, blah the teethbehind can get yeah wrong?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
yep, you know, they're not wrong yeah, the
teeth behind can get affected.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
They're like this is what you need to do.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Do it for your child they start throwing that at you
I want everyone at home toremember the episode where tony
paid thousands of dollars tohave his dog have surgery.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
But go on on top of the bill.
Did it say before any of themoney.
Did it say, do it for yourchild.
And then it listed all thecosts.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
That was the adding of it and it's funny.
I heard, I heard a stand-upcomedian I don't know who he was
, but I heard him on.
It was like facebook reels andhe was talking about, uh,
veterinarians.
The same way I feel aboutdentists yeah, yeah, and
veterinarians he said.
He said, uh, the trick to theveterinarian to get to the what

(09:28):
the actual problem is and notdeal with all the upselling, is
you take your dog and then yousay, hey, his legs fucked up.
How much to put him down?
and they're like whoa, whoa,whoa.
It's just a sprain man, he'llbe fine.
He's like that's what I thought, motherfucker that's brilliant.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Actually, fuck it.
I'm done with this.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
How much, to put this one down, so now I'm doing that
with my kid at the doctor'soffice I'm like his eyes all
twitchy how much to put him down.
That's pretty good but uh, sothey hand me a bill for I
don't't know.
It was like 7,000 bucks.
Right For these fucking crownson my kids pretend teeth that

(10:08):
are just going to fall out inthe next couple of months, I
think.
I think while they were puttingtheir crowns on them they were
like no discount.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
We already got it.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
We started already.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I already entered the ticket into the system sir, but
uh, already got it.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
We started already.
I already entered the ticketinto the system sir, but uh, she
goes.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Okay, you have two options for this bill, for we're
just going to use the number ofseven thousand dollars.
They said you can do it as aday surgery.
It's a lot less, uh, invasiveon your child, uh, it's all
about the children.
They said what?
what happens with that is, yourinsurance pays for the room at

(10:53):
the hospital but you have to paythe anesthesiologist bill I
think that's the most expensivebill it wasn't cheap and they
said or we can do it onin-office visits, but it's going
to be nine separate visitsright, because the guy can't
only do like one or two at atime.

(11:13):
Yeah, and uh, I'm like wellokay you want to get that
through.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
You don't want that, that trauma, like, yeah, I did
the same thing.
You want to try all that traumato your kid just fucking one
time.
So my wife's like, yeah,perfect, we'll do the day
surgery, we'll pay theanesthesiologist, we'll throw
that extra three.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
You want to try all that trauma to your kid just
fucking one time.
So my wife's like, yeah,perfect, we'll do the day
surgery, we'll pay theanesthesiologist, we'll throw
that extra 3 000 bucks onto it.
We go, we go show up, they getthem ready, they have them out
within 10 minutes of us walkingthrough the door.
Dentist goes to work, dentistto work.

(11:43):
She's done with all thesecrowns in a half hour, jesus.
And she comes out and she'slike where's my $7,000?
Yeah, and we don't have dentalinsurance.
So this is like briefcase fullof cash, like that's how we got
to do it.
You paid for it in cash, so Isit this lady down and I talk to

(12:06):
her.
Really, we're in the fuckinglobby of the hospital and I'm
like here's the deal.
I'm like I own a contractingcompany.
This is the anesthesiologist.
No, this is the dentist.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
And the doctor's, like how are your floors in your
house?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'm like I own a contracting company Teeth for
cleats.
I'm like service-based business.
Right, I said if I go look at ajob and I'm told I got to quote
it out two separate ways.
One way I'm going to have anuninterrupted hour to get the
job done.
Or I'm going to have nineseparate trips of 10 minutes a

(12:50):
piece to get the same job done.
Those are going to bedramatically different prices,
dramatically yeah and, but yougotta think of a different way I
said so.
So what you're telling me isthat you got done the same
amount of work, that it wasgoing to take you nine separate

(13:12):
visits, that's.
I said that's nine separatedental assistants that you
didn't have today.
That's nine separate visits,that's.
I said that's nine separatedental assistants that you
didn't have today.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's nine separate uh um, novocaine and gas that
you got to give a whole thingroom.
I'm like that's sanitizing yourroom.
They put all the tools in thosepaper plastic bags with little
stickers and they put them inthe little machine that
disinfects them.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
I said so you're telling me it's the same exact
price either way.
And I'm like you know, becauseI'm like my wife agreed to this,
I'm like she didn't lay theseoptions out and she didn't tell
me that Now it's going to costus $3,000 more to make it more
convenient for you, right?
And she goes, yeah, but I hadto travel here.

(13:58):
And I said, oh, you had todrive the one mile from your
office to this fucking center.
And she goes, yeah, that's,this is the cost of doing
business with a doctor right anduh, that's the fucking shit.
It's fucked up, dude.
I hate these fucking people.

(14:19):
I hate them.
They just fuck you over any waythey possibly can.
It's, it's fuck you over beforethey help you so did you get a
discount?
No, nothing, not one fuckingdollar it cost.
It cost me thousands morebecause an anesthesiologist is
in the lobby like, hey, aboutthat, three thousand dollars,

(14:40):
right?
So yeah, I wrote ten thousanddollars in checks for that
fucking hour of her popping capsover my kids she had to drive,
though yeah, I know maybe shetook the bus and she's just
really angry about the travelingyeah.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
My kid just had a crown done on one of her teeth
and it did only take like 15minutes for the whole fucking
operation.
What happened with you and thedentist now?
So yeah, I'm about to turn yourlives around, man.
Oh boy, I fucking love thedentist now Shit.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I was once like you.
We're going a different anglenow.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I was once like you guys and was feared and afraid.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Hey, I didn't say I was afraid.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Then I got married to a girl who decided to work for
the public school system and nowwe have really great insurance.
So I get a good amount of moneyeach year to spend on dental.
If I don't use it, I lose it.
So I decided to take decided tohear that number.
I decided to take advantage ofthis and take my oral health

(15:42):
seriously.
So I recently uh, I was onlygoing to tell my recent dental
story, but I'll kind of expandon it.
Yeah, I went through yearswhere I didn't go to the dentist
like fucking ever.
I had this fucking rotten toothin my mouth.
It was all busted and brokenand rotten.
I was terrible, right, and Ifinally decided I gotta take

(16:03):
care of all this shit.
So I went to the dentist andthis is I decided I was going to
find a really good dentistbecause the insurance was going
to cover it anyways.
Hell, yeah.
So I found the finest dentist,the finest in the land, All
right.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
rate her on a scale of one to ten A 30, dude.
Were you.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Googling.
No, it's not even a she, it'snot even about that?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Were you Googling reviews on dentists that you had
to find?
Are you talking?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I found a dentist that won awards that won
certifications here and there.
So they got a cool name like DrSmiles.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's in a high-rise building in the downtown area.
It happened to be the closestone to my house.
Actually is how I found it.
What's his name?
I like my story about how Ifound the best dentist ever,
because it really is.
They won a bunch of awards.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Give him a shout-out now.
What's his name?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
it's called major dental.
It's the bomb major I think.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I've heard commercials on the radio about
that shit.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
But so, uh, yeah.
So I went in, I got all my shitfixed and it was the same way,
though, tony man, shit cost aton of money the fucked up thing
too.
Because I did this, I had likea five year plan to repair
everything in my fucking mouththat was a plan that gave you.

(17:20):
I had to have a fucking bonegraft on.
I had to have.
I have an implant in a faketooth implanted in my fucking
skull.
Do you like backstreet?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
fight.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I had all of the old, all of the old chrome shit and
everything that was in myfucking mouth From when I was a
kid at the dentist the old 80s,90s shit, all replaced with
white porcelain.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
So it looks like I don't.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Everything.
They made it all work, Tony See, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
It has mass suits on just to work on.
Yeah, dude, for real.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
They were like mercury and shit in them.
Yeah, for real.
Well, that's what they are.
They have to hire an abatementcrew.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's what the fillings are.
They are basically lead andmercury.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'll fast forward a little bit here, more to the as
I go.
But so basically, yeah, I had acertain amount of money each
year that my insurance wouldcover.
But then each year I had a planwhere I would go in and they'd
do a bunch of shit and I'd go inthere like every fucking month,
dude, I was in there, we'regoing to grind this thing, put
this thing in, we're going to dothis thing and do this thing.
We've got to take x-rays ofthis thing and all this shit and

(18:29):
it would add up.
And then they're like, oh, westill have this appointment we
need to do this year.
And they're like, well, itcosts this much money for you.
And I'm like, well, can I paywhat the insurance company pays?
Ask your dentist that question.
Because all of a sudden your$485 crown becomes what they're
allowed to charge the insurancecompany $195.

(18:50):
And then you pay that amount.
If they don't agree to thatshit, you tell them that you're
going to go somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
They don't like that.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
So they do it.
So I'm telling you that's thesecret code, that's to crack the
code of this episode.
But anyway, so yeah, man, youhave to fucking the billing's
all fucked up too.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, so I was talking to one dentist one time
who I called in a fucking panicbecause I went in.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I hadn't been to the dentist in like five years.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Right, you had like worms coming out of your teeth,
so when you go in they go.
Oh well, based on the amount oftime since your last dental
appointment you got to do, umx-rays and well, it's like a
deep scale cleaning, orsomething and I got a bill for
it and it was like 490 becauseit's not covered.
And and no, it was covered, butthat that's what they charged my

(19:42):
insurance company and I at thesame time, like, right, when I
was done with that, they did afilling and they took about
equal time and one was thehygienist and, uh, one was a
dentist.
And I went in there and or Icalled him, actually asked for a
call back from the dentist.
He called me and I go hey, canI come be a hygienist by you?

(20:04):
And he's like, why, like whatare you talking about?
And I said, well, I just got mybill.
And I said you guys both spentabout 45 minutes on me and I
said you got to bill myinsurance company 180 and she
billed my insurance company 440.
I said it's obviously being adental hygienist, but I use

(20:27):
fucking serious cash.
And he goes.
Let me explain you howinsurance companies work.
He goes, they tell me what Ihave to charge them.
Yep, he goes.
So I send them a bill for $440.
Send it back for.
But our negotiated amount thatthey pay me is $90 for that.

(20:52):
Yep, he goes.
The filling I did.
They tell me I have to chargethem $180 for it.
He goes.
They pay me $70 for it.
He goes.
That's so that they can showyou how hard they work for you.
Like using your insurance savesyou money because ultimately,

(21:16):
they only paid this much outbecause they negotiated the deal
.
Yep, yeah, but he's like that'show they make it through your
premium so quick because you'reyou're being overcharged for
everything and then I'm beingpaid whatever they feel like
paying me right.
Same thing with my chiropractor.
When I had insurance where hewas covered, it was $90 a visit

(21:41):
every time I went, no matterwhat $90, $90, $90.
Then, when I lost my insurance,when I became self-employed,
he's like just give me $20 whenyou come in.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Really yeah, and he goes.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
That's what the insurance paid me anyway for
your visits you must have beendoing something a little extra
for him, though well, I suckedhis dick a little, but that's
what I thought hug, rub and tug,all right.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
So that's how you get people to be honest with you
now that you so, yeah, this,this, this whole story I wanted
to tell actually happened in thelast two days, because I'm
through all that shit.
I'm not going to the dentistevery fucking month and
everything like this.
It is kind of weird that I walkin there and the secretary's
like did you want to hang yourcoat?
And I'm already got the coatcloset hung up because I've been

(22:26):
coming in there.
It's got your name on one of thebut so, dude, I forgot that I
had this appointment appointment.
But I flipped my work calendarto november and there it was
fucking november 11th, I thinkwas yeah, so no, the 12th I went
.
I went there yesterday first,so it was just there on the

(22:49):
fucking calendar.
I'm like, oh shit, I got adentist appointment, which isn't
a big deal, except for I havethis other thing.
The last thing we want to do ismy front two teeth.
One of the front teeth is anold ass uh implant from when I
was a kid.
Yeah, it's different color andit's different and it's
different size and it'soutgrowing it.
So they want to take it out andfucking replace the two with
two more new fucking implantsright, and a veneer and an

(23:11):
implant or some shit.
So I was like, oh, I know wetalked about that the last time
I was at the dentist, but thatwas fucking six months ago.
Am I going in there to havewhole fucking facial
reconstructive surgery or am Igoing in there for fucking
cleaning?
so I was nervous for the dentistfor like the first time in a

(23:31):
long time so I show up there, Ipark my car, I go upstairs, I
tell the lady what my parkingspot is.
So she pays my parking, tellsyou this place is bomb.
And then she asked me if I wanta cup of coffee or a glass of
water or anything, and I say noand I hang my coat up like you
got new starburst and I makethem really work.
For today, I'm secretly I'msecretly really nervous because

(23:53):
I don't, like I said, I don'tknow what this appointment's
actually for, but at this pointI'm too afraid to ask.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
So I'm just like I'm fucking going in.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
So I'm ready for anything I get in.
It's just the fucking cleaning.
They were like, yeah, we weretalking about that, do you want
to do that?
So it's still on the plan.
But they did their little thing.
They dug around.
They're like, oh, you got some,you got the x-rays show some
cavities.
Ah, fuck.
They said I'm like all rightand they're like, well, we
should get them done, but I amout of money on the insurance.

(24:22):
So I had to pay a little bit,which kind of sucked, but it was
just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, cavities aren't a hundred dollars or something
you have to pay them in pork.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Let me get you my crypto.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Wait, when you said that, I thought you were talking
about actual meat.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Like ribs, like Chris Watkins, with a cooler.
I'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I got some ham and cheese in the car I think Pinky
Stave is running a deal on, so Iget through this appointment.
They're like yeah, we foundthese cavities, you gotta get
them fixed.
So they had me come in today.
I was expecting to do threecavities, actually two right
next to each other on the lowerone on top.
I don't know what the fuckhappened, but here we are it's

(25:07):
been a while since I had a newcavity, right, excuse me.
So, uh, today I go in there toget my cavity filled in same
thing.
You know, here's my spot number.
They paid for the spot and thenoffer me the coffee or water
and I go sit down and, uh, theyfucking dude you remember?

(25:32):
Remember that old that?
That?

Speaker 3 (25:35):
yeah, syringe, yeah, that they would use to inject
the fucking mouth shit.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
So first they put the little numbing stuff in your
lips right.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Never did that shit for me, so she's talking to me
she's like that's because youwere a jehovah's witness too bad
, you're not coming heretomorrow.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
the the flavor, new flavors coming, pina colada.
She's rubbing strawberryflavored numbing gums in my
mouth, right.
So then then she.
Then she's like oh, we got thisnew thing.
It's supposed to make theinjection for the novocaine or
whatever less, the anesthesia orwhatever anesthetic less

(26:12):
invasive.
It's this pen, and she pullsout this thing and it looks like
a fucking pen and she goes yeah, it's pretty neat.
We put the medicine in, well,you put it in this machine and
it doses the medicine into itand then you press a button and
you put it in the patient'smouth and the pen knows where to
put the needle and how much toput in and everything.

(26:34):
So she's telling me this asit's like in my mouth and she's
not really paying attention, andit's just in there and this
apparently it's just a fuckingneedle that goes into your
little lips and shit Does, hisreal soft little, I hear it's
going, it's dispensing thismedicine and like no pain, none,
zero.

(26:55):
The shot was no pain at all,none.
Remember that fucking thing.
They would use big metal liketwo finger grippers you can see
like their whole veins in theirarm getting fucking rubbed up as
they're trying to get it partof the dentist.
Oh shit, dude, this thing isbomb.
So she's like oh, I'm gonna geta little more only it goes back
and puts it in the littlemachine and she brings it back

(27:16):
and presses the button you'reall done, chris and then my son.
She's like I'll be back a coupleminutes.
And then my face gets numb andshe does the thing.
So she fixes the one on the top, no big deal, the whole thing
fixes it.
Oh, how's that feel?
Bite back forth, blah, blah,blah.
Then she goes to do the otherones, like alright, I'm gonna

(27:36):
work on this one.
Oh, it looks like this othertooth is actually fine, now that
I'm like looking at it herewith the fine tooth thing and
poking at it or whatever.
So we don't need a cavity.
It's not a cavity, we're gonnaput it on a watch, but I'll fix
this other one.
So she's drilling in dude,something you don't want to hear
.
This is why I wanted to tell astory, something you don't want

(27:59):
name.
Something you don't want tohear is your dentist is inside
your mouth with a drill.
Oops, oh, she goes.
Oh, wow, what's this?
Holy cow?
She says.
And the other lady's like, ohman, whoa, I've never seen what
that is and I'm like theyfucking pull this shit out of my

(28:25):
mouth.
She's like oh, so, oh, this isthe other cool two they have.
She brings this other littlepen.
She's like oh, here, I'll takea picture for you.
I'll show you what's going on.
She she puts this little pen inmy mouth.
The little light flashes.
I can see it on the little TVscreen on top of me.
Turn around.
She shows me a picture ofwhat's going on in my mouth.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
It's a black person's tooth.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
She goes it's all black.
No, but it was Dude.
She goes it fell in like a trapdoor.
No, but it was Dude.
She goes it fell in like a trapdoor.
I was grinding and your toothjust went and she showed me that
I had this fucking deep asscavity underneath, like a non
cavity looking area.
They found it off.
There was a fucking x-rays andthen scalping around and find it

(29:11):
, but she didn't.
They didn't think it was likethat.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
They thought it was just a little dot of fucking rot
in my tooth, in my tooth Number, where you said toward your gum
.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
No, right on the top of my tooth.
So then I'm like here, you meanyou email me that picture.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
So they said what's this and cause she?
Yeah, dude, she.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, dude, she's like, uh, basically she just had
to grind a little more than shethought, but she's like I can't
believe that we've fucking seenthis thing In your fucking
tooth.
Dude, that's not what youexpect, it's a big ass fucking
hole.
Ew, that is disgusting.
Pretty crazy, then they grindedit out, real big.
They grinded it.

(29:53):
You see, I'll show you thepicture there.
They grinded it out and filled.
They grinded it.
You see, I'll show you thepicture there.
They grinded it out and filledit in, bro, but what a
technology dude, it looked likeyou ate something.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
There was green in there.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
It looks like there's something living in there.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, yeah, I think like I said, but she said it did
not.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
I mean, I wasn't looking at my, my mouth, but I
didn't see any holes in my mouth.
But she grinded a little bit.
She's like, oh shit, it justlike caved in.
That's how much fucking.
That's why you need to go tothe dentist.
Go to the dentist, you fuckingI'll make an appointment tonight
, yet drink your fluoride no, Itrust me.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I definitely know that I should be going to the
dentist.
I have bad, irritating feelingsin my mouth often.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Dude.
When I was a kid, I used tohave these Dude go away.
I used to have these nightmaresthat my teeth would just
crumble to shit and just fallout of my mouth.
And then, when I got a little,bit older.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Oh my God, that fucking happened to me bro.
Dude, you don't have thatnightmare where you're.
Yeah, exactly, you just said ithappened to me teeth are all
falling out.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
I literally would be out falling out I would be out
and about and my teeth werecrumbling in my fucking mouth
dude that's how bad my teethwere because I wasn't taking
care of my teeth.
Like if you're not gonna go tothe dentist the genetics don't
help.
But yeah, dude, find yourself agood dentist.
I do have a guy who willfucking my.

(31:19):
We found a dentist throughprocess of elimination from this
guy at my work who is not gonnapay for all the bullshit.
He just wanted his fuckingtooth out of his mouth.
So we got yeah, we got a guywho literally just tie your
tooth to a fucking doornail andrip it out.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
I need a Costa Rican refugee who practiced dental
there and then just moved here,but he still lives with like a
cousin or something and doesn'trealize how much he can charge
for stuff.
I had a tooth.
I just, I just need a guy who'slike I'll fill that in for you.
Give me three seashells, yeah Ihad a tooth.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
The only bad situation with with dental was I
uh was eating at a taco belland um I would, I bit into my.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
They don't have a piece of hard food in that whole
place.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
It's all plastic bags .

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Listen to me.
I bit into a gordita and therewas something fucking hard in
there and it split one of mymolars in almost half it was a
piece of tooth.
It was something hard and I waslike you know what Maybe this
is?
Can I sue them?
It cracked.
Not Taco Bell, it was somethinghard and I was like you know
what maybe this is?
Can I suit them?
But like it cracked not tacobell.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
When you go through the door, you sign a level of
immunity.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
You're walking with sign in just walk.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
You, let you, let them.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
You're dude I didn't need taco bell for five years
after that.
I had to get that shit pulledout and I still look to get
another tooth in here.
I have to bridge between thetwo teeth next to it and it's
like it was.
I mean, the number was insane.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, I have no teeth in the back, I have two.
I had three teeth pulled, onereplaced and I had they almost
were like, well, we might justwant to replace all nine of
these.
I'm like fuck that shit, orwhatever you know.
They're like oh well, thisone's bad and this one is too,
and this one is too, and so ifwe're going to do those two, we
can't really save the middle one.
I'm like no, fuck that you savethem fucking teeth Like I'm

(33:25):
here now, bitch.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
We're going to work through this.
If I'm going to spend moneydifferent like legos, I want
different fucking teeth that Ican take in and out, like when
I'm feeling in the mood ofhaving red teeth.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
That's what the famous people do.
They just grind down theirteeth and put on these veneers
that you can just pop in and outwhatever the fuck would you get
a grill, tony?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
if you got, oh yeah, what?
What?
Okay, no, what would your grillbe?
What diamonds gold?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
what it would be all that if I ever, if I ever like,
made it, made it like?

Speaker 3 (33:56):
what kind of made it?
How would you be making it likethe porn?

Speaker 2 (33:58):
industry, like if I, if I ended up some somehow, some
way coming up with real likerapper money like you, can't
outspend the interest type Iwould.
I would catch a flight tohouston and have one of my
heroes, paul wall, make me agirl?

Speaker 3 (34:16):
how do you even know?
Is it?
What is that?
Who's that?

Speaker 2 (34:20):
uh, he's a white houston rapper.
Take your teeth out.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Let me make you agree .

Speaker 3 (34:25):
He's a rapper and a dentist a jeweler?

Speaker 1 (34:28):
yeah, and he makes grills, paul.
Wow, baby, he's the people'schamp okay.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
So now, when you're talking about grills, I thought
like something that he wouldcreate or make something that
would fit over.
Yeah, they'd clip on.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, but a lot of them, what a lot of them are.
Because a millimeter's, a milein your mouth they say and you
feel that shit.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
So if you have, a little bit thing that goes over
your regular teeth.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
If you have a little bit thing that goes over your
regular teeth, you're going tofeel it and you're going to look
goofy.
It's going to feel goofy, soliterally literally most of them
grind their original teeth downto nubs and snap these fucking
things in like dentures.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
I didn't know they could actually snap them in like
Legos.
I thought the dentist had to dothis shit.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Nah, Nah dude, you can have a whole fucking drawer
full of different grills.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Like a picture of a dude taking all his grills and
be like showing his fuckingcrazy zombie teeth.
There are, I mean why, I got tosee what that looks like.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
If you had that done, why?
On earth?
Well, ever would you walkaround without?

Speaker 3 (35:34):
your teeth in?
No, i'm'm saying just to showoff what it looks like without
having the grill in.
What's that rapper?
I'm curious, there's a rapperwho's got point teeth I don't
know Like purposely pointingteeth, pointy teeth yeah, can't
think of it.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I'm not going to look right now.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
How far are we, do you think, from having like
Bluetooth teeth?

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
That when you start eating something like the teeth,
like little grinders, pop out.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Did you only think of that?
Because Bluetooth.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Like you don't even have to chew, you just put the
food in your mouth, you put itin your mouth and hold it in a
certain place, and all theselittle like in a certain place
and all these little like youknow, like the thing you put the
potato in and you slice thepotato real fast yeah, like
different attachments pop out ofyour teeth.
What the fuck kind of shit doyou think of?
You just keep the food in yourmouth and it does all the

(36:29):
processing for you here's thething about it's ready to be.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Here's the thing about tony he has inventions
that are amazing but they'renever gonna be made in the next
100 years.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Like I think that this actually could be a
possibility like at some point,like when it's done doing it
either like a light goes oninside your retina or like a
little vibration happens whenyou know you're good to swallow
your nose turns a differentcolor or a beep comes out of
your face Beep Like the fuckingmicrowave that you set up.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
They're using AI now, dude, to analyze the x-rays and
shit.
The lady was like because I wastalking about AI or whatever
somehow and she's like, oh yeah,we use that sometimes to
analyze the x-rays.
It'll tell you if you have acavity or not.
I'm like what do you mean?
She's like I don't know, itjust figures it out.
It's like we don't have to doanything, and then when?
she when we were talking aboutthese photos of my fucking tooth

(37:30):
.
After it, I would have even sawthis one.
This was, I mean, I knew therewas something in there by what I
was seeing, but I didn't looklike this.
Like, maybe.
I probably would have just hadme remove the whole fucking
tooth they.
I would have recommended thewhole thing Go away.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Maybe you had a bunch of food just jammed up into
that bitch.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, dude, it was like a cavity.
No dude, if it's jammed up inthere.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
It's like making its own tooth of food.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
And you had a food tooth All right, that's been
another episode of Top ShelfStories.
This podcast is meant toentertain Nothing.
We say here, even fuckingmatters for shit.
We're just talking about theday in and day out of being a
guy, a dad, a member of thisfucking world we live in.
In today's episode, we talkedabout the dentist.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
I think before this gets dropped, I have to get a
copyright on blue teeth.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Blue tooth, teeth Blue teeth.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Yeah, you will be.
You will need to do that, butnot for another hundred years.
Self-chewing teeth.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Blue teeth is patent pending.
I don't know how that evenhappens as a part of Tony's
Total Detonations EnterprisesInc.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Which is still my favorite thing we've ever done
on a podcast All right,beautiful, see you next time.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Bye, bye, beautiful, see you next time.
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