Should this topic have come sooner? Maybe, but they were all important topics if you asked Don, and some of his students, all things considered, had distractingly good teeth (here's looking at you, Flint), so it had slipped down the list somewhat.

"Let's talk about oral health," Don said. "I know, not the most exciting topic, and flossing is a pain, but it's important. If you take good care of your teeth, you're less likely to have problems with them like cavities or them rotting straight out of your skull." For example. "Now, the dentists won't like that I'm out here talking about our luxury mouth bones without their permission, but," he dropped his voice to a stage whisper, "We just won't tell them, all right?" Don had procured a model mouth from somewhere (no one tell the dentists), and he used it to demonstrate how to properly brush and floss your teeth as he talked about the importance of doing so twice a day, avoiding a ton of sugar, and so on.

When he was finished he asked, "Does anyone have any questions?" If he looked around like he was expecting a dentist to leap out and hit him with a cease and desist letter, well, that was just the surgeon in him.