Our dentist is a nice guy who tells really bad jokes, so I’m glad to hear dentists are thriving in the recession. Here’s a quote from Time.
The one guy is 63, just lost his job at a health insurer, and is afraid he’ll never find another one. The other has three kids, one in college, and lost his construction job. The stress caused them to grind their canines and molars. So they each wound up in the office of Dr. Woody Oakes, a dentist from New Albany, Ind., with a fractured tooth.
It’s not just that people are grinding their teeth in misery (and I’m glad I’m not one of them yet), but they’re losing benefits and letting their teeth rot, then running to the dentists in pain. Or they fear for their jobs and they’re rushing all their dental work in before they’re stripped of their salaries, their benefits, and their smiles.
I wonder how doctors are doing. Ill-health should be up, but visits might be down. We’ll see what happens when Cobra benefits start expiring.
