The successor took over the practice and thoroughly renovated it.

The yellowed sunflower pictures, which the patients then sedated, have been removed.

Core renovation is taken seriously here: pin-sharp close-ups of carious, crumbling teeth now hang there.

A paradontosis parade in multicolor, exposed tooth necks, inflamed flesh, gaping gaps, the rotten molar, a brown lumpy construction site.

Intimate insights into dentistry, where sensitive patients gape in shock.

Ursula Kals

Editor in business, responsible for "Youth Writes".

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The newly qualified dentist does not find the photos unaesthetic at all, but stimulating and interprets them with great attention to detail - these gum pockets could be reduced, then a few more stitches.

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Images that inspire.

At least if you are a specialist and are correspondingly hardened.

More abstract excerpts would have been enough.

Just like the microscopic floating images in the doctor's hallway: they may be sickly intestinal villi and aggressive bacteria, but with a little imagination they look like dreamlike underwater landscapes.

A undertaker scores with waving grass in the gentle wind and does not show a post-mortem.

The hairdresser does not frame scaly scalps and wispy strands of straw, but hangs shiny heads of hair.

Dear Uncle Doctor, why don't you show any photos of teeth that shimmer white – in other words, after photos and no before photos?

No, that seems too promotional.

Then he counters sharp-tongued: Should I, like my colleague, exhibit the hobby paintings of my relatives, provided with hefty price tags?

Nobody wanted to buy the gouache horrors.

In order to cover up the disgrace, the practice owner put up "sold" signs because he thinks that triggers demand.

"We doctors are sometimes pain-free!"

In the Nine-to-Five column, different authors write about curiosities from everyday life in the office and university.