Unusual painting of teeth

My new dentist has this on the office wall by the chair, to set patients' minds at ease.

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sbarnes2

Such great comments. This painting is Regretsylicious.
IWood

“A ring! Fantastic! Do I have fingers? Do I have arms? You’re useless, Roger! Useless!”

She was a nagging harpy of a tooth.
BB

This only heightens my insane fear of dentists and dentistry.
Anonymous

Wow, do Teeth have teeth!?
- Anonymous
  
  Maybe some do, but I don’t think these teethpeople do… But if some teeth have teeth, then WHERE DOES IT END?!?! :O
AirPillo

That image is going to be floating around doing weird things to my subconscious for a while.
ernesto

And the wallpaper!
jimkirk

And the lips sofa…
- holtt
  
  It’s by that artist, Man Tooth
braininavat

> to set patients’ minds at ease.
I find that if I floss regularly my teeth don’t get painful so I don’t have to find a new dentist to destroy them further.
catdance

Does that remind anyone else of the album art on the Derek & the Dominos Layla album?
- ill lich
  
  Actually it reminds me of a little ditty from my weird childhood:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZJs0gnOFgU
- irksome
  
  I was thinking Van Dyke Parks’ covers for Little Feat.
  
  Creepy, yet disturbing.
Anonymous

that box of chocolate is ironic haha
- Anonymous
  
  Notice the chocolates are sugar free.
goldmineguttd

Until I noticed the ring, I had a rather disturbing interpretation of their positions and body language.
- ernesto
  
  So did I.
  Did anyone else notice the lamps?
twiddlekins

Oh yes, oral sex teeth.. Totally will calm me down when my mouth is being tooled.
mccrum

Haha! Rob, you said “new” dentist, like you were going to go back.

What? Oh. Well, he must be a hell of a good dentist if you’re willing to look at that thing across the room while reading a magazine seven months old.
holtt

And uh where is that ring supposed to go?
Anonymous

Looks more like a Little Feat album cover. Neon Park Lives!
tweaked

They’re drinking mouthwash!
- Kaden
  
  Yeah, but ’43 was a good year.
Anonymous

I made you a GIF:
http://dump.fm/images/20110219/1298134446538-dumpfm-hypothete-teethskeletons.gif

Moderator note: may induce seizures
arielturnip

I think Grandma tooth watching from her portrait in the background is the creepiest part.
Anonymous

How do they pick the glasses up? With their roots / legs?
Anonymous

Tooth fellatio makes a lot more sense than one tooth proposing to another, ring or not.
benher

Will they be raising a couple of canines together? Would the woman in the photo on the plaque approve?
JoeCrow

I don’t know that I’d let somebody who put that up on their wall anywhere near my mouth.
- Anonymous
  
  My immediate response, too. Bad painting is one thing but this is just plain creepy. I would not opt to be put under with this dentist.
siradambeck

I just read the post about xkcd procrastination and immediately resolved to have more clarity and get more done. Yet here I am, commenting on a sexually suggestive tooth painting. Spread those roots baby…. lolwut
Elmo Gearloose

Makes the phrase “root canal” more appealing…
nehpetsE

Definitely a fetishistic image.
Whats the word for people who are into tooth cosplay?
bob d

And that, Johnny, is where baby teeth come from…
SpaceGhost

He’s about to check her cavity
gravytop

Look out lady — he’s an escaped dental patient
Rob Cruickshank

He just came out as bicuspid.
Anonymous

Will they be raising a couple of canines together? Would the woman in the photo on the plaque approve?

Naw, turned out she’s bicuspid.