Dentist

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Nothing Hurts

A gentle dentist drowning in debt starts inventing cavities to drill. The money saves her. One invented filling rots a patient's jaw, and the lie she tells to survive is the thing that buries her.

A is the town's painless dentist.

People who fear the chair trust her hands.

Her school debt is bigger than her practice.

One slow month she marks a healthy tooth as decayed and drills it.

Insurance pays.

Nothing hurts.

She does it again, then often.

B, her hygienist, reads the charts and sees clean mouths billed as ruined ones; A makes B a partner to keep her quiet.

The practice thrives on being 'thorough.'

Then C returns — the anxious man A once talked back from the door — with a tooth she 'fixed' now swelling.

She tells him it is unrelated.

The infection spreads toward bone.

To treat C honestly, A must confess what she did to his mouth.

She chooses the chart instead: she backdates notes, blames an old crown, refers him out clean.

C nearly loses his jaw and still thanks her.

B watches the lie and asks for her name on the deed.

Now every patient in the chair is a mouth A can invent, a witness she must buy, and a confession one X-ray away.

A keeps drilling.

The better her hands, the deeper she falls.