The staff here at Lynnwood Centre Dental love watching films, so we bring to you our top 5 dental movies! Curl up on the couch, grab some popcorn and sweet treats to watch a dental movie or two! But don’t forget to brush and floss when you’re done! 🙂

1. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger, 1976)

The most famous and fearsome screen dentist of all. A graduate history student is unintentionally caught in the middle of an international plot involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent. The dentist does quite a cruel procedure on him, causing some insane pain –all for nothing, for he hasn’t a clue what they want… The movie coined the term…“Is it safe??”

2. Ghost Town (David Koepp, 2008)

Bertram Pincus is a Dentist whose people skills are undesirable. When Dr. Pincus dies unexpectedly, but comes back to life after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the comically annoying ability to see ghosts. The movies reminds you of A Christmas Carol and Groundhog Day, with a gently humorous tale of redemption and transformation.

3. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, 2003)

Nemo is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to live in a dental office in a fish tank in Sydney. Nemo and his fellow tank-mates, get to witness a dentist and his expertise, while planning his great escape. If you listen closely you can hear dental references about root canal techniques and instruments.

4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005)

A boy wins a tour of the most outstanding chocolate factory in the world that is run by the world’s most unusual candy maker, Willy Wonka’s dad was a dentist that never allowed a young Wonka to eat candy – poor fellow never really stood a chance.

5. Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986)

Steve Martin played Orin Scrivello DDS and stole the show in this screen version of the popular comedy-horror musical about a timid flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) and an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on humans.