Halal Holiday Hackers #7 Travel and Teeth
There are very few places more depressing than a dentist’s waiting room. If sitting in silence while thumbing through a three-year-old issue of Radio Times wasn’t bleak enough, the discomfort and/or sheer horror inflicted on your mouth that follows makes the whole experience unequivocally The Worst.
The extremely bad time guaranteed by the dentist understandably overshadows the fact that – as hard as it is to believe when you’re in the chair – dentists are actually people too. They have lives, families, maybe even friends. And some have hobbies, hobbies they document on social media.
We discovered this to be true earlier in the year, when we wrote about a blogger called Steak & Teeth for our halal food series. Between scraping gums and lecturing people about brushing or whatever, this dentist maintained an excellent blog on eating halal.
He must have inspired some sort of trend, because we’ve now discovered another dentist who blogs about stuff he likes. As this is the latest instalment of our Halal Holiday Hackers series, the stuff this dentist likes is obviously travel. His name is Sami Diab AKA Travel and Teeth (@travelandteeth). Let’s take a look at some of his best Instagram posts.
BUT before we begin: if you decide to click through to his Instagram, you will see a lot of gross dental work photos. Just a warning for the squeamish, that.
Also, check out the drone action.
While we may dislike the dentist ourselves, we are extremely fortunate to have access to a dentist at all. A huge amount of people don’t have such privilege.
Sami Diab knows this. It’s clear that some of his travels serve a greater purpose than personal globetrotting:
Here’s our guy volunteering his vital dental skills to Syrian refugees at a camp in Jordan. When we see a photo like this, we remember how lucky we are to have the opportunity to glance through a three-year-old Radio Times before a trained professional ensures our teeth aren’t about to fall out.
Some people won’t ever get the chance to receive such care (let alone moan about it).
If you’re a dentist who also blogs about their life outside the clinic, please get in touch. Unless it’s to complain about us, in which case, sorry for calling you The Worst 🙁
Meet Sami Diab, AKA Travel and Teeth, a dentist who travels the world and offers his vital medical skills to people who need it the most.
Meet Sami Diab, AKA Travel and Teeth, a dentist who travels the world and offers his vital medical skills to people who need it the most.
Meet Sami Diab, AKA Travel and Teeth, a dentist who travels the world and offers his vital medical skills to people who need it the most.
