Doctor Bill Melarkey took time out of his crazy day on Halloween to fix up some dental problems. He wasn’t performing oral surgery or even filling cavities. He was moulding some monster teeth for me for this year’s Reaper’s Wrath haunted house. “It’s ironic,” said the family friend and accomplished dentist, “In the next room I’m working on the cutting edge of dentistry fitting some new implants for a patient, and in here I’m fitting some fangs for Halloween.” Dr. Bill, a long-time friend of the family had long promised to help with oral ministrations around the time of our haunted house.

It wasn’t the first time Dr. Bill got me out of a pinch though. In 2009 he pulled a painful wisdom tooth that my own dentist struggled with.

Here’s the thanks he got.

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