If we’re lucky the giant blob will eat the zombies. Oh, the blob isn’t alive? Never mind…

Neither are the zombies, though. Think about it: they’re both underground, neither is alive, we haven’t seen either around recently …

Eeeeeep! That blob is the zombies!

This dramatically improves the hospital or dental experience for the child, parents and healthcare providers.

More like dramatically improves the wallets of the providers. My son had to have a tooth extracted. They made a big deal about the nitrous and we went along with it. Turns out it’s not covered by insurance and costs $100 for what they said was going to be 5 minutes of it at the beginning.

When we brought him back to have a filling done, they pushed the nitrous hard. We refused. We had explained to our 6 year-old exactly what was going to be done, made the dentist show him the tools and explain how they worked and helped him through his anxiety. Turns out, they didn’t even give him a shot of novacaine. There was absolutely no pain and he came through like a champ. I have heard from friends of other dentists offices that refuse to work on kids unless nitrous is administered and that they don’t allow parents to come back with them.

I certainly understand that some people have a great deal of anxiety going to dentists and that nitrous can be a help. I also know that the plural of ‘anecdote’ is not ‘data’, but in my experience, it’s turned into a method for dentists to make a quick buck right off the top without going through insurance.

Now, the zombie thing, there’s a worthwhile cause if I ever saw one. I just started Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. There’s no excuse not to be ready for the zombie invasion.