Going to the dentist

It's strange don't you think how events that we never bother to think about, creep up on us in a very insidious fashion, one such occasion is the ubiquitous trip to the dentist, every six months they would have us believe; but how many of us actually keep to this discipline. The idea of looking above you , often with nothing to distract you on the ceiling is tempered with the vision of this masked figure bending over you looking as if they are about to remove toxic waste from around them, then actually peering at you through that surgical mask hiding their true expression. Surreal, if not a little scary as if anything was to go wrong, then at least the patient would have little idea who had actually committed the violation. A lot of things can happen behind the safety of a mask don't you think?