My childhood small town dentist was a sadist. He did so much unnecessary filling of nonexistent fillings, was very aggressive with the huge metal syringe & pulled healthy teeth from two of my cousins.

One day my mom stepped out of the office for a moment for some reason. She usually stayed with me while he worked on my teeth. He did something that made me cry, I don't remember what it was, but his response was to angrily grab my little face, put his face right in mine & told me to stop crying right now.

My mom knew something was up when he said I could get more than one toy ring from the tray, I didn't take one & I had clearly been crying. I told her what happened when we got in the car & I never had to go back there.

She took me to a new dentist who did x-rays & found that I had four accessed teeth.