The female dentist pulled out a numbing needle to give the man a shot.
“No way! No needles! I hate needles!” the patient cried.
So she put the syringe away and prepared the nitrous oxide mask instead.
The man shook his head even harder.
“No way! I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having a mask on suffocates me!”
The dentist paused for a moment and asked, “Do you have any objection to taking a pill?”
“None at all,” the patient replied. “I’m perfectly fine with pills.”
She stepped out for a minute and returned holding a single blue tablet.
“Here you go,” she said. “It’s Viagra.”
The patient looked at it in surprise.
“Wow! I didn’t know Viagra worked as a painkiller!”
The dentist smiled and said,
“It doesn’t.”
The man looked confused. “Then why are you giving it to me?”
She folded her arms and replied with a grin,
“Because it’s going to give you something to hold onto while I stick that giant needle in your mouth.”
For a second there was complete silence.
Then the dental assistant burst into laughter.
The patient stared at the pill, stared at the needle, and finally sighed.
“You know what? Maybe the needle isn’t so bad after all.”
The dentist chuckled, picked up the syringe, and said, “That’s exactly the reaction I was hoping for.”
Ten minutes later the procedure was over.
As he left, the patient smiled and said, “Next time… just don’t tell me about the needle first.”
