Selly Park Dental Centre

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. A delivery driver pulled up outside Selly Park Dental Centre one afternoon and noticed something odd. ‘Hey,’ he said aloud, ‘is that a shark tooth stuck in their sign?’ The delivery driver scratched his head, puzzled. Just then, an old lady walked out of the clinic. 'Oh,' she smiled, 'that's just our new logo!' She pointed to the sign. 'We had it made especially for our shark-tooth-themed dental awareness month.' The driver laughed, shook his head, and drove off, muttering something about strange places he'd delivered to.

2. A little girl walked into Selly Park Dental Centre with her mother one morning. As they approached the reception desk, she pointed excitedly at something on the wall behind it. ‘Mummy,’ she whispered, ‘why does that toothbrush move?’ The mother looked up and saw nothing but a plain old poster of teeth. But then, leaning closer, she noticed something odd—a tiny animation of a toothbrush gently moving back and forth. She smiled and whispered back, 'Oh honey, that's just an optical illusion.' The little girl giggled and said, 'But Mummy, why do all the other patients laugh when they see it too?'

3. At dawn, when most people were still dreaming, an alarm clock began going off inside Selly Park Dental Centre. No one could figure out whose it was or why it kept ringing every morning. Finally, someone suggested checking the reception area. There, nestled among the magazines and coffee cups, sat a tiny teddy bear with a little red alarm clock in its paw. It turned out that a delivery driver had left it there weeks ago, and ever since then, the poor bear had been trying to wake everyone up for his owner. The staff named him Mr. Early Bird, and he now lives happily at the centre as a mascot.

4. At night, after hours of quiet, a voice crackled over Selly Park Dental Centre’s intercom: ‘Please return your teeth to reception.’ A delivery driver, puzzled, returned with a box of misplaced teeth. The next morning, an embarrassed owner collected them, muttering something about late-night parties and lost dentures. From then on, staff kept a secret stash of spare teeth in reception.