cool

 The lazy man gets up and turns off the alarm clock. Check the news on the computer, that is all well, or absolutely unwell. Palestinians terrorising Israeli populations and the Israeli forces demolishing parts of Gaza in return. In terms of causing loss of life, Israel won.

There is a  appointment with the dentist today, early in the morning, take a shower, shave and make a particular business out of cleaning the teeth. It is not far to the dentist's practice, and despite leaving everything to the last second, it is possible to be on time. A friendly greeting, and a short wait in the waiting room.

Then the move to the room with the chair, sit down, and be told to remove the mask. Then there is the usual business of keeping the mouth open while the dentist works on the teeth.

There is one difference, one novelty. A strange jig is put into the mouth, and then an instrument like the business end of a vacuum cleaner  is inserted. The dentist moves this thing around  in the mouth, a regular clicking sound comes from the behind the seat somewhere. Both the dentist and her assistant are no longer  looking at where their hands are but have their eyes focused on something that could be there where the clicking noise is coming from. It is a strange experience, after fifty years of dentists looking to see where they are drilling.

Afterwards the dentist explains that she has a new system whereby the stump of the tooth is scanned and from the data gathered a new prosthetic tooth can be printed.

She says that this is very cool.