In Which I Try to Riddle Out the Connection Between LDS Members and the Dentistry Profession

Question: why are there so many LDS dentists? I'm pretty certain that every dentist I've ever been to has been LDS, including my orthodontist and the guy who took out my wisdom teeth. My Sunday school teacher as a early teenager was a dentist. The bishop of our old Temecula ward's counterpart ward (and good family friend) is both my mom and dad's dentist (but randomly not mine... But don't worry, my dentist is LDS, too. He's in my ward, actually. I worked with his wife in Young Women's). My mom worked for him for a while, because, that's right, she was a dental hygentist back in the day... The day before they wore gloves. My dental hygentist as a teenager was in the stake YW's presidency, so it was always super nerve racking to see her (the dentist was a member, of course). I had a friend growing up who wanted to be a dentist, but then he left the church and ended up going into the Air Force and posts pictures on Facebook of him and his buddings surrounding bongs and beer.

Not that I have anything against ex-members who join the Air Force and enjoy taking pictures of them and their friends relaxing with beer and bongs. Their just not LDS dentists. Which is the point I'm trying to make. 

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Well. That was a mood wrecker. 

I suppose I'm off to go ponder some more just what makes cleaning crusty crap off other people's teeth so appealing to members of the LDS church. Or anyone, for that matter. It's just gross, you know? 

(And, you know, going to the dentist is one of the things that is like a serious bummer in life, like on a scale of mild dislike to the ninth circle of The Inferno's hell, it's pretty close to jamming with Dante for a lot of people. So just how enjoyable can it be for the dentist? I mean, unless the dude is some secret super villain, I can't imagine it being all rainbows and butterflies. But what do I know. I'm just the girl who hates toothpaste with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.)