Dentists have the highest suicide rate, consider the source.

You made me curious, so I checked. According to http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010420.html, dentists have a lower suicide rate than doctors, psychiatrists, and female health professionals. Also especially insightful: "Of 22 occupations examined in Washington state, dentists had a suicide rate second only to that of sheepherders and wool workers."

Cecil rules! He points out that the numbers are so small, it is difficult to judge. Shrinks may have the worst suicide rates, so be careful with them.

meth problem at Wilson Sonsini?

WSGR should hire WUSTL grads and cut down on their insurance costs. WUSTL students usually lose most of their teeth by 9 months after graduation due to the malnurishment that results from unemployment and homelessness. Do you hear that WSGR? Do you?

Every dentist insists that 90% of adults grind their teeth. Hence the booming market for nighttime mouth guards. Lawyers already have to worry about death by disgruntled client that goes postal, heart disease, diabetes and every stress-related ailment the AMA has been able to catalog to date. The least of our worries is our teeth.

WUSTL 2L? A poor man's Loyola 2L?

The dentist and gf recently informed me that I grind my teeth and will probably need a mouth guard soon. I never knew that I did it. And for you smart ass readers out there, no, it is not from cocaine or meth!

Rumor has it meth makes working mulitple back-to-back all-nighters bearable...maybe even fun...? Dunno. I never wanted billables quite that bad.

WS probably sued him for malpractice.

Mouth guards aren't so bad. I got one during my first semester in law school and found that it helped to wear it during it exams. It cut down on unpleasant stress-induced grinding.

I started grinding my teeth in my sleep the first year of law school. It hasn't gotten any better since I started working.

Hey WUSTL 2L, it doesn't get any better. Although I'm now happy to report that I'll be clerking for a judge in the East St. Louis Superior Court! #1 in violent murder law!

It's malnourishment not whatever you wrote.

I've met a few Palo Alto associates who I'd be happy to help out with their teeth grinding problem.

What exactly was it about law school that was so stressful. I went to a tier two school and breezed it. Looking back, best decision ever (geography was the reason at the time).

I had a teeth-grinding problem, but it wasn't stress related. Jaw mal-alignment. Then some fat bitch K&E SA smacked me back into shape and I've been fine ever since. Thanks, fat bitch!

12:37, YOU HAVE HORRIBLE READING COMPREHNSION SKILLS! THE SLAPPERS WEREN'T K&E SUMMERS! WHY HASN'T ANYONE POINTED THIS OUT?

Sar (what the hell kind of a name is that?), your a MORON!!! Maybe people's reading comprehension would be better if you spelled "comprehension" right.

IT WAS A JOKE!!! You obviously never read this blog or you would know that. Get off you're high hoarse and learn to recognize a joke.

LLLLLAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!!!

Please censor trolls who can't take or don't get a joke.

this article is oddly apropos. i had a dentist appt this morning, and the dentist joked "are they getting you to grind your teeth yet?" (he knows i'm a first-year associate). you'll all be happy to know that my teeth are fine and grind-free (for now).

1:28, ummmm... are you off your meds? Didn’t “WHY HASN'T ANYONE POINTED THIS OUT?” – a blatant parroting of a previous joke – clue you in? I’ll concede that it’s subtle, but there’s really no excuse for having to enquire about the name “Sar”. Vocalize the words “Sar” and “Chasm” consecutively. After you’ve mastered that, move on to something more rewarding, such as: “I am sofa king wee Todd Did”. In your case, it's quite a fitting mantra.

Listen, Sar, I'm not up on all the ethnic names. (I'm guessing Sar is Indian? Pakistani?) I shouldn't have made fun of your name, which I'm sure is accepted and even popular in your country of origin.

I take it English isn't your first language? Here, we would say "Young Todd is the king of the sofa," or somesuch, if we were talking about a boy who always gets his favorite chair to watch TV in. (BTW-Relevance???)

It must be hard trying to learn English by reading blog posts, many of which are subtly sarcastic and don't really say what they appear to say. I sympathize. Where I don't sympathize is with your quickness to attack my initial post without realizing it was a joke. That made me angry. And now you say you're post was joke related? I think that for an ESL student such as yourself, the wikipedia entry on "jokes," linked to in another thread, might be especially helpful.

I assume you're a foreign lawyer getting an LLm at an American institution, right? Good luck with that and again, Sar, I apologize for criticizing your name.

I have an issue. Invariably, whenever anyone jumps on someone for some type of spelling or gramatical error (in this case "L2L doesn't look to (sic) bad" and "Not stress", who somehow managed to spell both "you're" and "horse" wrong), their own comments are laced with mis-spellings. It is just not effective at getting the point across.

Suck on that.

and to prove the point: "gramatical" is spelled "grammatical". Nothing further.

Yeah, "somehow". Almost like he was trying.

Suck on that, young Todd @ 2:21.

I'm sure.

my firm's dental plan specifically doesn't cover anything relating to grinding or TMJ. total bitch move, particularly if lawyers are more prone to grinding (i know i grind, but i didn't know it was so widespread).