A seasoned dentist meets his most difficult patient yet — a young man with mouth full of cavities who refuses anesthesia.

A morose middle-aged man's dull life is turned around when he gives a ride to a money-embezzling dental receptionist who's trying to skip out on her life.

A longtime dentist's receptionist accepts a dinner invitation from a new coworker and her boyfriend; as the evening unfolds, the women realize they both have traumas in their past.

A middle-aged man in a small Northern town is desperate to escape his mundane routines and imagines rash and violent actions that might give his life meaning.

A man who has struggled with chronic pain throughout his life begins an expensive new treatment from a mysterious New York City doctor that has a more sinister way of healing patients of their pain.

A fanciful reimagining of the nine enslaved people who provided each of the teeth in George Washington's set of dentures: an immigrant, a conjurer, a slave trader, a cook, a mystical being, an aspiring soldier, a runaway, a blacksmith, and a dream.

A man in the metalworking industry is blinded by a tragic work accident and finds himself using humor as a coping mechanism and way to cover up his own fears while in the hospital.

After being recruited for a so-called neurological study, man meditates on the imaginary city he sees in his dreams.

On her drive to her hometown in Georgia, a medical student contemplates the recent death of her reckless friend and picks up a stranger with a cast on the side of the road.

A wife discovers that her husband is co-inhabiting his body with an alien visitor as part of an experiment; she comes to favor the alien lover over her unsatisfying husband.