“Dentists without Borders,” he complains that a dentist in Paris dismissed his concerns about his gap teeth and asked why he wants them fixed: “Because I can floss with the sash of my bathrobe.”
Which the author celebrates the appreciation of those who take care of us. He takes a usually frightening experience like going to the dentist and turns it into those moments in life we should value and how it serves as a reference to our humanity: In the story Sedaris states “For my fifty dollars, I want to leave the doctor’s office in tears, but instead I walk out feeling like a hypochondriac, which is one of the few things I’m actually not.” This symbolizes how we go to the doctors for them to find something wrong and when nothing is found we feel as though it is a wasted trip.