A metaphor for modern American medical care.

[snarp]

Dentist: *severe lecture on the importance of flossing, you absolutely have to, if you don't floss your teeth will definitely all fall out, etc*

Me: The thing is that I hurt myself when I try? My teeth are too close together for the floss to fit between them. I guess it's because my wisdom teeth pushed the others forward. If I try to force it, I just end up bleeding.

Dentist: Oh. Me, too, actually! - Yeah, you don't want to try and force it, you'll just get a gum infection. I don't actually do it.

(I have never in fact had a cavity.)

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[petronia]

Whereas I have so much space between my teeth by now that flossing is ineffective. (And in any case, diet turns out to help the inflammation issue way more than dental care.)