Once the door of the dental clinic is closed, it is a small human theater.
Absurd yet real dramas are staged here every day: a tough guy who claims that "the tooth nerve will heal itself" knocks on the emergency door in the middle of the night with a swollen face; a patient who vows to "brush his teeth three times a day" takes out last week's leeks from between his teeth; a 1.8-Meter strong man bursts into tears in front of the drill, but a five-year-old child completes a root canal with his eyes open and without saying a word.
Chen Mo is an attending physician in the dental department of a tertiary hospital. He has been practicing for 12 years and has seen mouths that can circle the playground twice. He has an "occupational disease" - recognizing people by smell. The overnight drinking, morning cigarettes, and unbrushed dental plaque were all invisible under his nose. What's even more troublesome is that he can't help but complain in a low voice after the patient leaves, and the head nurse in the next door clinic loves to report him for being "not modest enough."
Until that day, a young female patient walked into the consulting room with a secret hidden in her mouth. When Chen Mo's probe touched it, it revealed not only the cavities, but also a past that had been entangled for ten years.
This is a flavorful medical novel.
Use the calmest tool to pry open the hottest life. You thought you were looking at your teeth, but you were actually watching how fate bites and misaligns them, and then at an inadvertent moment, they click—aligned.
Purpose: To demonstrate the professionalism and warmth of medical workers through the daily life in the dental clinic, and to reveal the unknown hard work, humor and human brilliance behind the profession of "dentist".