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10[[quoteright:350:[[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orin_scrivello_1.png]]]]
11[[caption-width-right:350:Let's have a look at those cavities...]]
12
13->''"I am your dentist.\
14And I enjoy the career that I've picked!\
15I'm your dentist,\
16And I get off on the pain I '''inflict'''!"''
17-->-- '''Orin Scrivello, DDS''', ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''
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19Poor dentists. The prevalence of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fear dental fear]] amongst people of all ages and educational levels leads to dentists being unfairly stereotyped in popular culture as sadistic torturers.
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21Expect the Depraved Dentist to wear a permanent SlasherSmile, usher a patient into his ([[AlwaysMale it's nearly always "his"]]) examining room filled with [[CowTools rusty, scary-looking instruments]], most of which are from the 16th century, and a huge honkin' [[ThisIsADrill drill]], and wreak havoc on the helpless, screaming individual's mouth (and possibly other body parts). If his patient comes to him with a {{t|heToothHurts}}oothache, he may not care about pulling some other teeth that were perfectly good.
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23Sometimes the dentist doesn't practice tooth-torture, but [[DudeShesLikeInAComa does creepy things to them when they're under anesthesia]].
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25Sometimes (unrealistically) also practices orthodonture, a similarly feared profession in RealLife.
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27The trope arises from that fact that until the early 1800s, teeth yanking was usually under the purview of (usually badly trained) barbers, who generally took the "brute-force" approach towards dental surgery. Also, the use of anesthesia was not commonplace until after WWII. As a procedure that most people would have undergone and lived through, a distrust of it obviously would have developed. The French even use the expression "mentir comme un arracheur de dents" ("to lie like a tooth-puller") for BlatantLies, referencing how some tooth-pullers [[YouWontFeelAThing claimed to be able to perform their operations painlessly]], despite the fact that, as was mentioned, anesthesia was rarely used.
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29Unfortunately, the trope has been TruthInTelevision - there are cases of dentists who have done unnecessary work as a scam (usually on either poor child clients for Medicaid money, or alternately on rich, heavily insured patients), dentists who have [[DudeShesLikeInAComa sexually assaulted patients under the influence of anesthesia]], and some dentists that are ''just'' so incompetent at what they do that they have killed or seriously injured patients in their care and practiced anyway until stopped by regulatory boards or sued out of business. The good news is that the aforementioned regulatory boards and public listing of malpractice actions (and now, with the internet, patient reviews) makes it far harder for one of these to ''successfully'' operate for years without some hint of the danger.
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31Compare DeadlyDoctor, MadDoctor, MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate, TheToothHurts, TortureTechnician, AttackTheMouth.
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39* No complaints from the patient in this case, but the dentist in the cartoon for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX3EnlUMXR8 this commercial]] for a game called "Crocodile Dentist" seems to be having a little ''too'' much fun pulling the croc's teeth.
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43* Subverted in ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': When both Dedede and Bun/Tuff come down with toothaches, Dedede summons a scary-looking dentist demon-beast that works without anaesthetic... because his skill is such that he can drill out a tooth without causing pain at all. Doesn't stop the big wuss Dedede from sending him into the sky.
44* ''Manga/LuckyStar'':
45** Summoned in the very first chapter where Konata thinks the most awesome [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cool/awesome combination would be a dentist mecha with]] [[ThisIsADrill drills]].
46** Miyuki has a fear of dentists, and her dentist's voice is decidedly sinister-sounding (in the English dub, at least).
47* In ''Manga/LupinIII'', Jigen is afraid of dentists in general, and his worst fears were realized in the "Red Jacket" anime, where [[spoiler: he encountered a dentist who was actually an enemy agent, who shackled him to the dentist chair and then tried to kill him with a king cobra]].
48* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
49** In TheNineties [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] Usagi and Chibi Usa express fear of the dentist because they describe the only dentist in town as sadistic. They are more then happy to run off to the new, fun dentist in town only to have it turn out to be a trap by the Amazon Quartet.
50** There's a short extra in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] in which Usagi, Mina, and Chibi Usa decide to visit the hot new dentist for their cavities - who is secretly a minion of a ghost who gains power from cavity pain.
51* ''Manga/SgtFrog'':
52** In episode 10, Keroro gets a cavity, and [[MadScientist Kururu]] checks him out, showing an inordinate fondness for banging on the tooth in question with a dental mirror. It turns out that Keroro's cavity (and cavities in general) is being caused by a powerful race of alien invaders...who are the size of bacteria.
53** Robo-Keroro makes a HeroicSacrifice, letting the rest of the team escape, and activates his "secret weapon"... which happens to be a bouquet of flowers and a few fountains sprouting out of his head. Kururu then activates the ''real'' secret weapon. Robo-Keroro is an ActionBomb. Poor Keroro (the real one) gets his mouth nuked, which blows out all his teeth, destroying the Karies base. Luckily, Keronians can regrow teeth at an amazing speed. Kururu caused Keroro pain, tricking him into causing the same thing himself. The guy loves causing others pain and misery.
54* ''Manga/{{Soil}}'': New Town's council president is a dentist/orthodontist. He's an obsessive neat-freak [[spoiler:techno-savvy voyeur pedophile rapist whose victims are basically every boy who didn't want to be awake during a cavity for the past decade, has the whole town under a CCTV net, used the footage to incite the rest of the council to terrorize one family who (probably) didn't do anything, tortured one victim's mother with a drill during an exam, and killed a bunch of cats as a warning to a homeless woman who offended his sense of "purity". He later learns the hard way not to mess with people's mothers; meanwhile his victims have unknowingly banded together to destroy the world.]]
55* Dr. Mizunokuchi of ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' is a monstrous dentist equipped with spider-like limbs that have dental implements on them, as well as the ability to turn body parts, such as his tongue, into drills. He likes to work slowly.
56* In one chapter of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Ataru dreams that Lum will "help" him get over a tooth ache with some sort of dentistry torture chair.
57-->'''Lum:''' This looks bad. Everything will have to go!
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61* Averted in an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story. When Jughead gets a toothache, his friends drag him kicking and screaming to the dentist. From the waiting room, they listen to him howling in agony until Archie decides to intervene.
62-->'''Archie:''' Doctor! What are you doing to him?\
63'''Dentist:''' I haven't done anything yet. I'm just taking X-rays.
64* Invoked at the very beginning of ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Mad Love]]''. It begins with Commissioner Gordon going for a dental check-up. He is literally sitting in the chair when he realizes something is... ''[[AWolfInSheepsClothing off]]'' [[AWolfInSheepsClothing about his dentist]]. Then iron rings clamp around him, and the very next panel is of ComicBook/TheJoker turning around to reveal himself, holding an over-sized drill that he probably intends to do very, ''very'' bad things with...
65* Parodied in ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': when [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil the evil entity]] Eclipso tries to manifest [[EnemyWithin the darkest side]] of the the young hero's personality, thinking he will turn into a super menace, he transforms into... a dentist! And not even out of sadism, but so he can pay off his parents' mortgage and put his sister through college (and maybe get a CoolCar on the side.)
66* One of Creator/{{Edika}}'s short comics tells the story of a kindly well-meaning dentist who's not the least bit worried by his constant massive nervous spasms, and the horrors he inflicts with his drill.
67* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
68** In an origin story, it is revealed that the father of the man who later became [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]] was an extremely depraved dentist. Not only did he enjoy paralysing his patients instead of anesthesizing them, then tearing out every tooth they had, but he'd also murder them mercilessly to cure them of "brain worms". A healthy [[MisanthropeSupreme role model]] for the good Judge, no?
69** Dave "The Orthodontist" Duchese was a SerialKiller who kept the teeth of his victims as souvenirs.
70* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'':
71** In a Don Martin ''MAD'' book, Fester Bestertester goes to see a dentist who's rather enthusiastic about the prospect of having to drill. Although the preparation causes poor Fester a great deal of pain, when the drilling itself starts he remarks that he doesn't feel a thing. "Of course not," says the dentist, "but heaven help you if it were to slow down for even a second." Fester then reveals that he hasn't come for a check-up after all, but to deliver a note which says that at 2:30 P.M. the dentist's electricity will temporarily be turned off. Guess what time it is...
72** In a Dave Berg "Lighter Side" strip, a patient asks how much it'll cost to have a tooth pulled. When the dentist tells him, the patient protests that that's way too much for only twenty seconds of work. "We can make some sort of agreement," says the dentist with an evil grin. "I'll pull it slower!"
73** From the parody of the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," one of characters suspects a dentist is a pod person because, during a root canal, he drilled into a live nerve and didn't even smile.
74* The issue #3 of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' reveals that at one point the Cutie Mark Crusaders have tried getting their cutie marks in dentistry. Apparently, it went just as expected.
75-->'''Scootaloo:''' I told you pulling teeth wasn't the answer to everything.\
76'''Sweetie Belle:''' (''sheepish grin'') I thought teeth grew back.\
77'''Scootaloo:''' No... No... Just... No, Sweetie Belle.
78* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
79** One story has a mafioso go to the dentist's and open wide. The remaining panels are all from the inside of his mouth, as Frank comes in and tells him to grunt to answer his questions, and goes to town with pliers and the drill when the don doesn't answer.
80** An earlier story had the Punisher himself go to a dental office, where he is attacked and nearly tortured and killed with the dentist's equipment by gang members, who he eventually turns the tables on.
81* Doctor Doom. {{B|aitAndSwitchBoss}}ob {{Doom|yDoomsOfDoom}}. Enemy of ''ComicBook/SheHulk''. Actually, a successful dentist until he started to grow jealous of the wealth and power of his more famous relative and wanted to emulate him, he proved incompetent as a villain and was foiled by She-Hulk. (And it would seem, went back to his old profession afterwards, as she still gets dental checkup reminders from his office.)
82* An early issue of ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has a short story in which Dr. Robotnik orders to have a dentist badnik destroyed, because [[EvenEvilHasStandards even he thinks it's too scary]].
83* [[PolishMedia Polish graphic novel]] "Żyjesz?" ("You alive?") have [[PlagueDoctor Plague Doctors]] be this.
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87* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
88** In one strip, a boy is waiting with his mother in a dentist's waiting room. Through a glass panel in the door, he sees that the dentist is actually a monster whose human face is only a rubber mask.
89** Another strip had a dentist father keeping a chair in his house's basement so he could give his son an "appointment" as punishment.
90** Another shows the patient with mouth agape and full of instruments, while the dentist says "Just out of curiosity, we're going to see if we can also cram this tennis ball in there."
91* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2012/07/20 This strip's]] "Beware of Dog" signs read "Beware of the dog"; "who somehow managed to..."; and "get dentistry tools".
92-->'''Dog:''' Next.
93* In a ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' strip, Hamlet tells his friends who, like him, are all the children of Vikings, of his ambition to be a dentist when he grows up. They recoil with horror when he explains that a dentist "pulls people's teeth out."
94* [[http://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2015/04/10 This dentist]] in ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' takes ''extreme'' measures to remind people to floss.
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98* There is a Russian cartoon called ''Animation/CaptainPronin'' where the hero is captured by his enemies, and the high ranking one explains that his job is making drugs, and his hobby is inhumane experiments in stomatology. Very few managed to survive more than two fillings...
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102* While she starts as a seeming subversion of this as a bubbly upbeat dentist, Luka Aikuchi turns out to be this in ''Fanfic/DanganronpaMementoMori'', [[spoiler: being a SerialKiller based on the Kuchisake-onna urban legend, having the [[GlasgowGrin scars]] to match, and having a eugenicist view of purity on choosing her victims, [[DisposableVagrant targeting vagrants and the poor]]. She also happens to be the killer in Chapter 3, [[KillTheCutie murdering]] [[TheHeart Kozue]] heartlessly and all because she was a helpless victim and prime meat, LaughingMad during her VillainousBreakdown and called out by the class who declare that FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse]].
103* Hermione's parents torturing Death Eaters with their knowledge of dentistry is fairly widespread in the fanfic. ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3695087/1/Larceny_Lechery_and_Luna_Lovegood Larceny, Lechery, and Luna Lovegood]]'' is a standout example of the trope.
104* In ''Fanfic/StarWarsLineage,'' Master Ben To Li is actually a kind, gentle, and goodhearted (if a DeadpanSnarker) doctor. However, teenage Obi-Wan is still terrified of having his wisdom teeth out.
105* In ''Fanfic/TokyoLittleShop'', the "anime" continuation of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', there was Dr. Haru, who is based off of Dr. Farb from [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original 1960 movie]], who eventually retired to become a surgeon. A biker named Samekiba Orin, based more or less on Orin Scrivello, becomes the new dentist shortly after.
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109* The MadDoctor from ''Film/BloodsuckingFreaks'' works for Master Sardu, and he also rips one of the slave's teeth out and drinks her brains.
110* Willy Wonka, in the 2005 film adaptation of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', reveals that his wacky obsession with sweets is a rebellion against his father (played by Creator/ChristopherLee), an obsessive dentist who forbade all candy and made Willy wear [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill horrible braces and headgear]]. Though their eventual reconciliation shows that he was just an [[ParentsAsPeople overprotective dad]], rather than a genuinely demented individual. Also, young Willy apparently did have some real problem with his teeth, since old Wilbur actually recognises his son from his unique dental condition decades later.
111* ''Film/ACureForWellness''. Lockhart has a tooth fall out from the 'treatment' he's been getting. When Dr Volmer catches him [[ExploringTheEvilLair prowling about where he shouldn't be]], he declares they must treat the injury, whereupon Lockhart is clamped to a dentist chair, his mouth is clamped open and a hole is drilled in his right front tooth without anesthetic. Even worse, it is ''not'' a GoryDiscretionShot.
112* In the comedy ''Film/TheDentist1932'' (1932), Creator/WCFields wrestles with a recalcitrant patient and drags her around the room with her tooth in his pliers. One patient is so anxious she starts screaming as he tries to use the mirror tool ''and isn't even close to her mouth'' -- screaming enough to send a patient in the waiting room out of there. Another patient, after about a minute of drilling, spits about a dozen teeth into a bowl.
113* In the 1996 horror film ''Film/TheDentist'', Dr. Alan Feinstone loses his mind after learning of his wife's infidelity and, hallucinating filthy, rotten mouths, takes it out on his staff and patients before finally being committed. He escapes to wreak further molar mayhem in ''The Dentist 2: [[{{Pun}} Brace Yourself]]''. Loosely based on the RealLife serial killer dentist Glennon Engleman.
114* Dr. King Schultz from ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is a possible subversion. He is a former dentist who turned to bounty hunting, but is also one of the most moral and compassionate individuals in the film. However, this is a Creator/QuentinTarantino film, so "most moral" really doesn't mean that much. Lest we forget, he shows no hesitation in gunning down a man in front of his young son for money (although the man ''was'' a thief and a murderer.)
115* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': Bradford "Dr. Suave" Young is a dentist and SerialKiller who uses [[ThisIsADrill construction drills]] to torture and kill his victims.
116* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' has a ShoutOut to ''Marathon Man'' when Daffy Gremlin tries to do forced dentistry on Zack while asking "Is is safe".
117* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' has Arthur Weasley saying "I understand other Muggles are afraid of you," to Hermione's parents who are both dentists.
118* Dr. Julia Harris in ''Film/HorribleBosses'' is depraved in a different way than usual -- her job affords her daily access to handsome men she can drug unconscious, and she [[DudeShesLikeInAComa takes advantage of this]] at least twice.
119* Dr. Farb in Roger Corman's ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors''. Unlike his counterpart from [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the musical]], Orin Schrivello, Farb is not quite as sadistic and has a slightly smaller role, but still finds enjoyment in brutalizing patients. He has a magazine named "Pain" for his patients to read in the waiting room. The page quote, incidentally, comes from Orin's VillainSong from the musical and [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors the 1986 film spin-off]].
120* In the 1934 version of ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'', Bob Lawrence and a friend visit such a dentist office in search of his missing daughter. The friend's visit behind the door of the examining room is played for laughs. He comes out nursing his jaw after having a perfectly healthy tooth pulled. Lawrence's visit is much more sinister. He struggles with the doctor, who tries to kill him, and then puts him to sleep with his own gas.
121* In the 1976 spy movie ''Film/MarathonMan'', former Nazi concentration camp dentist Szell (Creator/LaurenceOlivier) tortures an American secret agent's brother (Creator/DustinHoffman) with "oral surgery" in order to find the location of some precious gems, while repeatedly asking him "Is it safe?" Hoffman's character has no idea what Szell is talking about, which adds to the dental horror.
122** This scene from ''Marathon Man'' is parodied in ''Film/HotShots''.
123* The dentist in ''Film/MyMomsAWerewolf'' is a little '''too''' excited to try to file down Leslie's teeth.
124* The short film ''Film/OnEdge'' starring Creator/DougBradley of ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' fame. A patient gets er, impatient and wanders into the office ahead of his appointment to find a dentist all too willing to see him. As subsequent conversation reveals some issues in this dentist's past the patient is made painfully aware he should have waited his turn.
125* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', all of the inmates at the prison Winslow Leach is sent to have their teeth removed and replaced with metal ones, because of an experimental health procedure funded by the BigBad.
126* Igor Peabody, from the ''Film/ProblemChild'' series of films, was the principal of an orphanage in the first installment and the principal of a school in the second. In the third, already showing a severe lack of sanity from all the headaches Junior has caused him, he becomes a dentist, and vents his frustration on his patients, but specially Junior, with whom he has a bone to pick. Peabody's sadism is made explicit in the second film, when he reveals why he switched jobs in the first place -- he ''hates'' kids.
127* ''Film/RioLobo'': Subverted, the local dentist is a good friend of the Phillips family and a reliable ally, although he does have to inflict some pain on [=McNally=] in order to fool some spies who were suspicious about his claims of going into town to get his tooth pulled.
128* Sam Waterston's dentist in ''Film/SerialMom'' revels in his patients' pain, although it's supposed to be educational. Of course he's not the AxCrazy of the movie.
129* The dentist who serves as the main antagonist in ''Film/SheWokeUpPregnant'' is also of the sexually depraved type. When one of his victims winds up pregnant because of this, she decides to fight back.
130* Kalgan's infamous "ancient dentistry" torture scene from ''Film/SpaceMutiny''.
131* In ''Film/{{Toothless}}'', just being a dentist is enough for Katherine's afterlife to be in jeopardy, as she chose to inflict pain and suffering on countless people. Katherine, of course, denies this.
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135* In the Creator/JamesHerriot book ''AllThingsWiseAndWonderful'', the RAF has a good dentist and a bad dentist. James is sent to the bad one who proceeds to extract one of James's teeth with a hammer and chisel.
136* In one ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'' book, Dan recalls a story told to him by his friend on the force [=McGoo=] about a dentist who collected teeth, going as far as to steal them right from his patients mouths. When the insurance companies noticed that too many people were filling out forms for dentures, said dentist tried to flee the country, only to be held up at the airport when the fillings in the stolen teeth set off the metal detectors.
137* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': A Played With example. Greg sees his dad's dentist, Dr. Salazar Kagan, as one of these. From what we can see, Kagan is a regular dentist, if a bit stern and annoyed with Greg; a large part of Greg's first impression of him comes from the fact that his dad switched him from the kid's dentist he had a crush on to Kagan without telling him beforehand. However, because Greg accidentally bit his finger while he was checking his teeth, Dr. Kagan retaliated by [[DisproportionateRetribution prescribing to Greg's father that he constantly wear dental headgear that he clearly doesn't need in order to humiliate him in public]]. Luckily for Greg, his brother Manny gets a hold of said headgear and puts it on himself the next day, which is what fully convinces Greg to never wear it again and thus sparing himself from being embarrassed.
138* In ''Literature/AHarvestOfWar'', Guinevere Thyll. However her dentistry (and medical practice in general) is separate from her depravity, mostly. She won't back down on performing extremely painful procedures without anaesthesia, however - [[PragmaticVillainy if there isn't any available]] or the patient refuses it.
139* Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, the Old Firm, from Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}. "Obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed, and ''tutelary dentistry ''.
140* One poem by Creator/ShelSilverstein has a dentist going to town on a crocodile, even pulling out a tooth that didn't need to be taken out. He says "What's one crocodile's tooth, more or less?" By the end of the poem, he is eaten in a single bite by the crocodile, and the poem ends asking [[IronicEcho "What's one dentist, more or less?"]]
141* The SerialKiller [[spoiler:Alex Carlos]] from ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles''; [[spoiler:he]] even uses dental instruments to kill and eviscerate [[spoiler:his]] victims. [[spoiler:One instrument he particularly prefers is the whimsically-named [[http://www.ikasassociates.com/images/26elevators.jpg dental elevator]], which is used to pull up teeth by the roots before removal—so, an EvilElevator, but of a different kind, because Alex uses it ''[[{{Squick}} to remove his victims' faces by detaching the skin from the muscles beneath]]''.]]
142* In one of the pieces in Creator/MargaretAtwood's ''The Tent'', young boys who shoot animals for fun are described as tending to become either warlord henchmen or dentists.
143* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': Downplayed in book 1 -- Dracula poses as Dr. Abel Dunn, a local dentist, but doesn't torture his patients ''during'' visits. Instead, he uses his assistant and customers to find prospective victims, and has been secretly manipulating said assistant to make her into one of his brides.
144* Dr. Jane Payne, from the children's book series ''Literature/WaysideSchool'', likes to pull patients' teeth whether necessary or not, in order to charge them more. When receiving a call from the mother of one of her patients threatening her with litigious retaliation, she responds that the mother can tell her lawyer to rub a monkey's tummy with her head.
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148* ''Series/{{Alias}}'' has a torturer who removes peoples' teeth (including one of Sydney's), known at Website/TelevisionWithoutPity as "The Sadistic Dentist of Asian Persuasion".
149* Doesn't fit this trope perfectly, but on ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', Orson is a dentist and is certainly "depraved": [[spoiler:He helped his mother dispose of a body and attempted to commit vehicular homicide, which later made him lose his license.]]
150* ''{{Series/CSI}}'' has a variant with a dentist who was a serial killer and chose his victims from his patients. He refuses to tell the women’s names after he’s caught.
151* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': One of the men from the group of rapists is a dentist. Though we never actually see his depravity show up in his work.
152* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]]", the Doctor, [[ScienceMarchesOn whose far more advanced society must also have equally advanced dentistry]], regards Doc Holliday as a barbarian. When Holliday offers him liquid anesthetic:
153--> '''Doctor:''' I never touch alcohol.\
154'''Holliday:''' ''[takes a swig for himself]'' Well, I do.
155* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In "The Retainer", the local orthodontist isn't just a rather menacing figure, he gives a local kid [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill a retainer]] that lets him read the minds of dogs.
156* A few episodes of the GameShow ''Series/FindersKeepers'' had contestants search for hidden objects in the dental practice of Dr. Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, reinforcing the scare factor with the occasional sound effect of a dentist's drill and someone screaming.
157* A both funny and creepy version on ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'': shortly after seeing his friend Neal's dad out in public with a woman who is not his wife, Sam (who is fourteen) has a dentist appointment. Neal's dad is his dentist. Once he has him in the chair, Dr. Schweiber starts telling him he didn't understand what he saw and asking if he's mentioned it to anybody, and ends up taking about how lonely you get when you're older you get lonely and start to feel you've been missing something in your life… all while Sam lies there froglike with a big plastic thing in his mouth.
158* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Rose is groped by her dentist after a procedure. Uncertain, she declines to complain. But when he tries it again during a return visit, the infuriated woman vows that she ''will'' file a report with the state dental board.
159* On ''Series/GoodEats'', Alton eats a whole olive...and breaks a tooth on the pit. He is then seen going to the dentist...whose assistant is his most prominent SitcomArchNemesis, W. (The scene is also a ShoutOut to the aforementioned ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''.) The dentist lectures Alton on the importance of pitting olives before eating them, and Alton whines about the olive-pitter being a unitasker. The dentist replies, "[[NoSympathy Well, maybe if you had used that unitasker]], I wouldn't have to use ''this'' unitasker." (Referring to a tooth-extractor.) W then explains that a good olive-pitter will be almost exactly like a tooth-extractor...and a ''really'' good one will have a little groove for the stems of cherries.
160* Doug from ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' has to have dental work done, and begins to suspect that his dentist is making the visits as painful as possible because he subconsciously resents Doug for marrying his old crush Carrie. Things get better when Doug introduces the dentist to Holly... but then they break-up...
161* ''Series/KirbyBuckets'': In the episode "Oh Bros., Where Are Thou?", Dawn signs up for a "surprise-dentist" visit from Dan, the Bounty Hunter Dentist, who had previously treated Belinda. By the end of the episode, however, it is revealed that Dan is actually a NiceGuy who got bored of his office job and wanted a cool new gimmick.
162* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU''
163** One episode featured a dentist who was part of a prominent pedophile group.
164** Another episode had a dentist who sedated and raped his patients including his own niece.
165* In ''Series/{{Louie}}'', the title character visits a dentist that specializes in treating people with odontophobia. After giving him an excessive dose of nitrous oxide and an unspecified pill, Louie has a series of hallucinations ending in the dentist sensually inserting a banana into his mouth. When he suddenly snaps out of the dream state, the dentist is seen hastily zipping up his fly.
166* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Al's new dentist, after the two have established a rapport, promises to go easy on him while drilling...until a call from his ex-wife's attorney sends him over the edge.
167* An episode of ''Series/{{Medium}}'' had a dentist and his lover fake the lover's death by abducting a prostitute and altering her teeth before setting her on fire, making sure to burn her so badly that the only way to positively identify her would be through her dental records.
168* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Dr. Oliver Bloom in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist" steal $13 million in bank certificates from a crew that robbed an armored car after an ex-cop on the crew blabs to him about it while being treated for a broken tooth he sustained from fighting the guards. When said ex-cop finds out what happened, he confronts Dr. Bloom and his assistant Teri, who proceed to beat him to death and dump the body. Later in the episode, they kidnap Monk with the intention of torturing him to find out whether the guy they plan to fence the merchandise to is being investigated. They even compare the torture session to the ''Marathon Man'' dentist torture.
169* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': a darkly humorous and justified example occurs in Season 5, involving Aryan bruiser Robson and his gum transplant. After being racially taunted by Robson, Dr Faraj makes certain the donated gums are sourced from a Black man and then informs one of the Homeboys working in the kitchen. When the news is announced to the whole prison at mealtime Robson (being now only 99.99% pure White) is forced to leave the Ayrans.
170* A weird case with Jeremy Jamm from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. He seems to be a perfectly competent orthodontist; he's depraved in terms of being a CorruptPolitician and general {{Jerkass}}.
171* In an episode of ''Series/ThePractice'', Bobby’s dentist cousin is accused of sexually abusing his patients during their sleep, including the firm's receptionist Lucy. Though the show was ambiguous about his guiltiness [[spoiler:yes, he was guilty, he confesses to Bobby]].
172* A prank on ''Series/PrankPatrol'' involved a visit to the dentist where the dentist turned out to be one of these.
173* In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', Jerry attends an "adults only" dentist who doesn't allow kids in his office, keeps copies of Penthouse in the lobby, takes hits of nitrous oxide before beginning procedures, and routinely swaps [[HospitalHottie nurses]] with his fellow dentists. After waking up from an anaesthesia induced coma, Jerry is under the distinct feeling he's been [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale violated]]. Later on, his suspicions are confirmed. In another episode, the same dentist inflicts pain on Jerry after finding out Jerry was telling "anti-dentite" jokes (You know what the difference is between a dentist and sadist? Newer magazines.)
174* ''Series/StrangersFromHell'': Moon-jo. Oh god, ''Moon-jo''. He's a dentist who's also a serial killer, torturer, stalker and cannibal. He tears out his victims' teeth without anaesthetic and makes them into jewellery.
175* ''Series/{{Thanks}}'': Since the show takes place in 1621, Elizabeth's trip to the dentist is guaranteed to be painful.
176* A LighterAndSofter version appears in the Nickelodeon comedy series ''Series/TurkeyTelevision'', with the dentist making small talk with his patients while handcuffing them to the chair.
177* Invoked on ''Series/WhiteCollar'' by Mozzie's former ''nom du crime'', "The Dentist of Detroit" (itself likely a ShoutOut to the film ''Film/DoctorDetroit'').
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181* "Unfinished Sweet" by Music/AliceCooper references a scary trip to the dentist.
182-->He looks in my mouth and then he starts to gloat.\
183He says my teeth are O.K.\
184But my gums got to go. Oh oh ...
185* In the Music/TomLehrer song "I Got It From Agnes," where "it" is an unmentioned venereal disease, one line mentions "Our dentist even got it and we're still wondering how." The fact that nobody remembers how implies that he [[DudeShesLikeInAComa had his way with an anesthetized patient]].
186* ''Music/{{Massacration}}'' has "Metal Dental Destruction", which is about a crazy, alcoholic fake dentist who operates with no professional procedures at all who ends up pulling every teeth from the narrator's mouth.
187* Referenced in one verse of the Music/OwlCity song "Dental Care":
188-->"Have a seat", he says pleasantly\
189As he shakes my hand and practically laughs at me\
190"Open up nice and wide", he says peering in\
191And with a smirk he says, "Don't have a fit\
192This'll just pinch a bit", as he tries not to grin
193* In Music/BlakeShelton's song "Some Beach," he mentions going to the dentist, who doesn't even wait for the Novocaine to kick in before drilling.
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197* Not the usual brand of depravity you'd expect from a dentist, but still pretty depraved: One {{Urban Legend|s}} involves a dentist finding excuses to put his attractive female patients under so that he can [[DudeShesLikeInAComa violate them while they're sedated]]. He's eventually caught when an underwear model comes to see him, and in his excitement, he doesn't use as much anesthesia as he should. She wakes up while he's raping her, and either screams for help or successfully fights him off, depending on the version. The title of an article about his arrest? "[[CrossesTheLineTwice Dentist Accused of Trying to Fill Wrong Cavity]]."
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201* In 1995, there was a hulking brute of a man whose gimmick was that of being a depraved [[WrestlingDoesntPay dentist]] called Isaac Yankem, DDS (ironically, Isaac's own teeth looked horrible). It wasn't exactly a roaring success. Fortunately, the man behind the gimmick, Glenn Jacobs, would go on to be considerably more popular as Wrestling/{{Kane}}.
202* Rather more successful than Yankem (though not yet as much as Kane) is Dr. Wrestling/BrittBaker DMD, a mainstay of the women's division in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling and former AEW women's champion, who uses the Mandible Claw as a finisher to attack the nerves in her opponent's mouth. She started out as a {{face}}, but turned {{heel}} soon enough, and after knocking one of Yuka Sakazaki's teeth out she taunted Yuka that she should have sent her a bill for it. Interestingly, Britt is a ''real'' licensed dentist when she's not wrestling, with a practice in the Orlando area.
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206* ''Drop Dead! An Exercise in Horror'', a 1962 spoken-word album by former ''Radio/LightsOut'' writer/host Arch Oboler, plays this for BlackComedy with a creepy little vignette called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8m2iia-ATM "A Day at the Dentist's"]]. Creator/StephenKing discusses it in his book ''Literature/DanseMacabre.''
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210* Dr.Mastiff from ''TabletopGame/{{Atmosfear}}'', the leader of the Soul Rangers who has an obsession with teeth and smiles.
211* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'' had, in its first edition, an adventure called ''The Dying of the Light''. The BigBad was called "Zahnarzt", which is the German word for 'dentist'. Sadly he wasn't one, but the name cannot be anything other than intentional.[[spoiler:For German players, the name was a spoiler, as the adventure was mostly a treasure hunt for one of his teeth.]]
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215* ''Theatre/DamnYankees'' alludes to this in the encore verse of "Those Were The Good Old Days":
216-->It was absolutely killing,\
217When dentists first were drilling,\
218And the longer it took, why, the more I'd praise;\
219Ah, that era of pain,\
220Long before Novocaine,\
221Ha, ha, ha, ha, those were the good old days!
222* Orin Scrivello of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', from whom the page quote is taken. This leather-clad hoodlum literally gets off on torturing patients, using nitrous oxide not as an anesthetic but to get himself high. In TheMovie, he meets his match in masochistic patient Arthur Denton, whom he eventually throws out of his office in disgust. The roles were memorably played by Creator/SteveMartin (seen in the picture above, taken from a different scene) and Creator/BillMurray respectively. A great bit is the scene with the BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill in the film adaptation, whereupon it is implied that he ''removed the jaw of a kid''. He also violently abuses his girlfriend.
223* In ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', a frequently-cut part of "The Contest" has Sweeney Todd and Pirelli competing to pull someone's tooth the quickest. Todd pulls another quick win while the show-off Pirelli struggles to extract a tooth from his stooge Tobias, who moans throughout the procedure he doesn't really need.
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227* Knotts Scary Farm's attraction ''The ToothFairy'' is a gory dentist office run by the titular entity, who is depicted as [[WouldHurtAChild a kidnapper and murderer of children]] and has dentists as minions. The 2017 update of the attraction replaced her with a male version who aesthetically fits this trope better.
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231* ''VideoGame/Afterlife1996'': The generic Punishment building "Tooth or Dare" is equiped with an army of sadistic dentists to torment damned souls.
232* Dr. Orel White, DDS of ''VideoGame/CostumeQuest 2'' is a crazed dentist who seeks to cancel Halloween after being forbidden to participate as a child.
233* In one of their developer videos, ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'''s developers said that they based the lights in the Ishimura off of the light that dentists place above their patients, due to the inherent fear they know many people have of it.
234* The antagonist of ''VideoGame/KillerEscape 2'', who gets extreme pleasure off of killing teenagers by yanking out their teeth and inflicting painful surgeries on them. She then leaves the bodies with a pillow and a coin under their heads, giving her the nickname "The Tooth Fairy".
235* Dr. Loboto in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is a mad dentist who harvests ''brains''.
236* Dr. Boris Habit is the [[spoiler: antagonistic]] proprietor of the smile rehabilitation center known as "The Habitat" in ''VideoGame/SmileForMe''. His cheerily puppeteered public service announcements grow increasingly threatening and ominous as the player progresses through the game and restores the "Habiticians'" smiles without consulting the good doctor. [[spoiler: His threats culminate in a goofy endgame villain monologue where he has the protagonist strapped to a dentist's chair and pulls out most or all of their teeth]].
237* The unnamed dentist in ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl'', who is also a GigglingVillain.
238* Zahin Schmartz (PunnyName and BilingualBonus) the dwarven dentist in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' isn't a villain, but takes unabashed pleasure in his patient's pain. When the city is on fire, he comfortably sets up shop in a torture chamber because it already had all the tools he needed. Also collects teeth, and has an academic appreciation for monster teeth.
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242* Pandagraph from ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' is an alien war criminal who travels from planet to planet, practicing dentistry as a cover for her illegal medical experiments. She clearly enjoys tormenting her patients, telling them that she’ll break them into smithereens, threatening to kill them if they complain or report her, and sporting a big SlasherSmile as she begins a tooth extraction. Arco, who needs said tooth extraction, is understandably reluctant to let Pandagraph go poking around in her mouth.
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246* ''WebAnimation/RabbitGames'': [[spoiler:The player becomes this in "Pretty Rabbit" after Percy is knocked out, pulling out his teeth with some even snapping and a lot of blood coming out]].
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250* In ''Webcomic/HeroOhHero'' one of the nightmares offers [[http://neorice.com/hoh_2711 "dental surgery"]] as a cure for everything. It leaves victims with a [[http://neorice.com/hoh_2709 shiny clean skull]].
251* In a ''WebComic/{{Nodwick}}'' story, a dentist commissioned the heroes to recover a magical pillow that had been made for a child, which would summon a tooth fairy to place coins under it in exchange for a tooth. His goal was to find her and all the teeth she collected, so he could make them into perfect dentures and make a fortune (and if he could find her stash of coins, all the better). While he was more selfish and greedy than he was evil, this plan led him to make a deal with someone he shouldn't have, [[spoiler: the GodOfEvil, Baphuma'al, who would become the BigBad of the strip.]]
252* One of (many) recurring background characters in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is Nana Avarre, the "angsty dentist" who combines stalking, Goth, and dentistry into one dangerous package. She likes to work without painkillers, but she still manages to get patients to return because her waiting room has arcade games. She was also one of Riff's old flames. So terrifying is she that when Torg was attempting to sabotage Leo, then a boyfriend of Zoe's, he gave him a coupon for a free cleaning from her office. Which actually went to Kent, whose screams were heard outside the clinic. They're dating now. It's not because he's masochistic, just incredibly dumb.
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256* Website/{{Bogleech}} has the short story "[[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/art/Doctor-Dementist-363266705 Doctor Dementist]]", where the narrator finds himself the prey of a mechanical monstrosity whose very vague understanding of dentistry will absolutely not stop it from drilling into your teeth. Interestingly, Doctor Dementist's demeanor comes off as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]] rather than sadistic. [[WordOfGod According to the author]], it likely [[WasOnceAMan used to be a regular dentist once]], and still tries to be one despite having somehow turned into a terrifying monster.
257* [[WebVideo/{{Fred}} Fred Figglehorn's]] music video: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy54ox6NaJU "Don't Forget To Brush".]]
258%%* ''YouTubePoop'': [[MemeticMolester Dr. Rabbit]] has become this via MemeticMutation.
259* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': The comic book introduces Dr. Tigani, an evil Orthodontist.
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263* In season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', Todd's latest business venture consists of dentist [[MonsterClown clowns]]. Unfortunately, Yolanda from the Better Business Bureau points out problems with his idea since 1) not all of them are licensed dentists and 2) they are too frightening to be retooled as an entertainment venture. Todd eventually releases the dentist clowns into the woods...where they contract rabies.
264* Zorak plays one in a skit in the first ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]]'' special.
265-->'''Zorak:''' Don't worry, kid! I'm a professional.\
266'''Brak:''' A professional ''what''?\
267'''Zorak:''' Bowler. (''{{rimshot}}'')
268* One of Creator/TimBurton's early cartoons had a MadScientist who's revealed to be a dentist.
269* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. The villain Knightbrace acts as an evil dentist, leading the heroes to believe that he has to be the overly-enthusiastic dentist they met earlier. His secret identity, however, turns out to be a sweets shop owner who was expelled from dental college after trying to put braces on babies. Ironically he is defeated because the ''licensed'' dentist from before helps the heroes.
270* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', the Red Guy is some kind of self-appointed orthodontic policeman who fits the entire town into painful, elaborate braces and headgear.
271* In ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The Dentist", Dan's dentist seems overly friendly at first, but is later revealed to be a sadistic supervillain who deliberately damages his patients' -- who are ''children'' -- teeth, forcing their parents to make repeated and expensive visits. He also plans to implant pain-inducing mind control devices into the teeth of world leaders so he can rule the world. It doesn't help that the dentist is voiced by Creator/MarkHamill, who also voiced the Joker, who as mentioned above invoked this trope as well.
272* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Subverted in an episode of ''Justice Friends'', when Krunk has a piece of potato chip lodged in his tooth and Major Glory refuses to let him go see a dentist. After watching Krunk be subjected to various unpleasant and unsuccessful methods to correct the problem, Valhallen simply takes him to the dentist, where the chip is removed painlessly in a few seconds. Played straight when Major Glory is forced to go to the dentist himself at the end of the episode, but only because he refused to go to regular check ups and thus had lots of cavities.
273* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaucers}}'', Styraco of the Tyrannos was originally a dentist working for [[PunnyName Pinchem, Pullem and Yankem]].
274* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' had an episode where Doug had a cavity, which featured him and Skeeter going to see a ''Smash Adams'' film where Smash fights an evil dentist named Dr. Decay, a spoof of Dr. Szell from ''Film/MarathonMan'' (right down to going "Is it safe?"). After Doug gets a cavity, he sees the name of the dentist he is going to see is "[[PunnyName Dr. D. Kay]]," and imagines they'll be a sadistic loony like the one in the movie. Instead, Dr. Kay turns out to be a kindly woman who painlessly fixes Doug's cavity.
275* Dr. Bender, the dentist in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', bullies children by [[FunHatingConfiscatingAdult stealing the toys that end up on his yard]], saying they don't deserve them because their teeth aren't as good as his and his [[IdenticalGrandson identical son]]. He even has denture bear traps. Naturally, his own teeth [[{{Hypocrite}} are fake]]. He's at his worst in "Shiny Teeth", where he's shown to be willing to painfully remove children's teeth for no reason at all.
276* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'''s title character is actually afraid of dentists (or [[CallARabbitASmeerp "toothsmiths"]] as they're called in Skullbania). Naturally, this inspires Venomous Drool to send out a dentist monster called Toothsbane to fight him, a ghoulish humanoid creature that transforms people into teeth that it then places inside its gum-lined mouth.
277* An odd subversion from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero''- Cobra's resident MadScientist, Dr. Mindbender, was once a perfectly nice and normal orthodontist. Then he started to research ways to reduce pain during dental procedures, using brainwave stimulation. [[ProfessorGuineaPig But when he tested it on himself,]] it messed his mind up and turned him into a madman.
278* One ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' family album episode featured Prehistoric Goofy putting Prehistoric Pete through a great deal of abuse in various failed attempts to pull a bad tooth so Pete wouldn't have to go to the dentist. In the end, Pete ends up at the dentist by accident, and he removes the tooth painlessly. The horrific drill-like thing that so terrified Pete was actually a watering can used on the dentist's potted plants.
279* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Dental Hijinx", where Johnny encounters a dentist who appears to relish the opportunity of causing Johnny pain a little too much (and is especially suspicious due to having the surname ''[=DeSade=]''), which causes Johnny to run away and cause havoc. Then after he gets captured, the dentist works very efficiently and cures Johnny in seconds.
280* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' plays with this trope, with Nathan fearing that his dentist will try to kill him. He eventually gets over it, and instead manages to befriend him instead, realizing that he actually does need a friend. [[spoiler:He still kills himself after the credits roll when out hunting with Nathan later, after commenting on how he appreciates their friendship]].
281* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'', Tuth is a very benign Mixel...though he has the unfortunate habit of assuming that ''every'' medical procedure also needs a dental one as well, which often leads to some unplanned tooth extraction from the patient...
282* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E16ToothOrConsequencesQyahSpy Tooth or Consequences]]," the viral video Randall sends Molly has them both convinced all dentists are out to cause pain and suffering. It takes an actual dentist for Molly to realize that, no, dentists don't use jackhammers on kids' teeth.
283* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' had one episode where a villainous dentist kidnaps and replaces Buena Girl's dentist. He made her wear [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill an extremely cumbersome headgear]] despite her perfect teeth and planned to do the same to other people.
284* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One sketch parodying ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' had Skeletor attempt to avoid a check-up with Eternia's dentist Mo-Larr, who removes a tooth from Skeletor without using anesthetic and gets past Skeletor's flunkies Beast-Man and Grizzlor by respectively hog-tying him with dental floss and gouging his eye with a dentist drill.
285* In one Sherman and Peabody segment of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', Creator/LeonardoDaVinci can't paint the ''Mona Lisa'' because Mona can't smile, due to a toothache. They find a dentist quickly, but his methods "leave much to be desired", as Peabody explains. After the dentist fails to extract the tooth with a cord attached to a bow and arrow (resulting in poor Mona being pulled through the air with it and wrapped around the Tower of Pisa like a tetherball) he takes her to the top of a cliff and tells her to leap off and land on her face. Fortunately for Mona, [[TooDumbToLive the guy offers to demonstrate himself first.]]
286* Hermey from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' is a subversion. He is ostensibly a heroic character who helps in the defeat, or in other words, the Bumble becoming a good guy. He does this by ripping out all of his teeth with pliers.
287* Sabrina has to get her wisdom teeth removed in the ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Molar Molar." She at one point has a nightmare about the dentist turning into Dr. Szell from ''Film/MarathonMan'', complete with him asking, "Is it safe?"
288* Dr. Wolfe in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Last Exit to Springfield" When Ralph Wiggum claims to brush regularly, Wolfe says, in a Boris Karloff-like voice, "Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?" and proceeds to [[ScareEmStraight scare him straight]] with the horrific ''[[BritishTeeth Big Book of British Smiles]]''. He then terrifies Lisa and Marge with an over-the-top computer simulation of what Lisa will look like unless [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill she gets braces]]. And when Wolfe does outfit her with braces and headgear, BackAlleyDoctor style, she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation reacts like the Joker]]. And if that wasn't enough, in the episode "Hail to the Teeth" it was revealed he wasn't a real dentist, but a periodontist gone rogue.
289* In ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', it's implied that all Wallop dentists are like this. The team's BigGuy, a Wallop himself, states directly that he knows full well normal dentists aren't like that.
290* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion'' Halloween special "Drag Me to Halloween" has Cooch vandalize the home of a dentist for not giving out candy. The dentist tries to call the cops on her, but is arrested when it's revealed that he's been kidnapping children and imprisoning them in the basement for not meeting his strict standards on dental health.
291* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'': A manic dentist turns up briefly in an episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Scaredy-Kat]]'' Chance watches in "[[Recap/SWATKatsS1E9TheGhostPilot The Ghost Pilot]]". He has Scaredy StrappedToAnOperatingTable and threatens him with a comically huge drill while laughing insanely.
292* Logan Jay in the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Dental? More like Mental!" is both this and a MadScientist. Supposedly, he was once a "dentist to the stars" (as in, his patients were celebrities) before his license was revoked (his whitening solution caused the President of the United States to lose his teeth). He seeks revenge by using tooth-altering methods that turn patients (and his henchmen) [[BodyHorror into freaks.]]
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295->[[Film/MarathonMan No, Dr. Szell, I don't believe it is safe.]]

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