Cottam Dental

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Cottam Dental one night, a delivery driver heard an odd announcement over the intercom: ‘Please return your flying dental chairs immediately.’ The delivery driver looked around confused but then noticed everyone else was calmly returning their chairs. Smiling, a neighbor whispered, 'Don’t worry, it’s just Dr. Cottam’s new joke system.' The next day, the intercom announced, 'And please do not attempt to ride the waiting room escalator—you’ll end up in our orthodontics department!'

2. At Cottam Dental, after hours, the receptionist’s cat started behaving strangely—meowing at empty rooms and disappearing down hallways. Was it just her imagination, or did something unusual lurk beyond those closed doors? Finally, one night a delivery driver heard muffled purring from behind an office door. Curious, he knocked—and out popped the cat, holding a half-eaten sandwich in its paws. ‘I thought you worked here,’ he said. The cat blinked and replied, ‘Just helping myself to snacks.’

3. At Cottam Dental, late one morning, the receptionist noticed something peculiar on the waiting room wall—a small sign that read ‘Today is your lucky day if you’re missing a tooth!’ Curious, she looked closer and called out to an elderly gentleman who had just arrived for his checkup. 'Mr. Jenkins,' she asked with a smile, 'have you been missing any teeth?' Mr. Jenkins scratched his head, grinned sheepishly, and replied, 'Well, I did lose one last night while eating my cornflakes!' Everyone in the waiting room burst into laughter, and it turned out to be a lucky day indeed.

4. At Cottam Dental, during a routine cleaning, a dental hygienist found an old coin stuck in the ceiling tile of the patient room. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a penny from the 1980s. Word quickly spread among patients, and soon everyone was asking for their own ‘ceiling coin.’ One day, a delivery driver even brought in a ladder to check his own room—only to discover that he’d been sleeping under a decades-old piece of lint! The whole thing became something of a local joke until one neighbor joked, ‘Maybe they should just leave the coins there—it’s cheaper than replacing the tiles!’