I am due for a check up and my dentist is a female so I don't know if I will hug her but I will express my appreciation. My dentist encourages music (she has a large selection) and lets me use my iPod which helps tremendously. So as I'm being worked on, my foot or fingers are keeping time to the music and it's over before i've gotten thru all my favorites. I've always thought that a great idea would be to paste some cartoon humor on the ceiling. One dentist I had, had those ceiling tiles with all the little dots in them and it was really difficult to count those dots and keep tract of which ones I had counted and which ones I hadn't. I had to keep starting over! Maybe in addition to the caratoons, some "Hug your dentist stickers?"