The Dead Battery Rotten Teeth Scam

A couple of years ago I bought a Sonicare sonic toothbrush at the behest of my dentist, Dr. Wimpee.  That's his name, really, Dr. Phil Wimpee.  He's pretty cool.  He gives me nitrous just to look at my teeth.  $30 well spent.  If your dentist won't give you gas for a cleaning, he's a sadist.  Just call my own personal Dr. Phil and he'll get you hooked up - literally.  The only bad thing about him for some is that he is a Cowboys fan and he graduated from Oklahoma.  I like him anyway.  When I was in last, he told me a story about almost meeting Tiger Woods.  Super cool.

Anyway, the internal battery is going out in my Sonicare.  I think I have had the thing for about 5 years and it cost around $100.  Plus, each 6 months I have had do buy a new head (that's what she said).  They are about $15 a piece.  So, I have close to $250 invested in this thing and now it's going out.  Problem is, I love it.  It is the closest thing to George Jetson's toothbrush that you can get.  It is the best product out there - but I don't have the $100 to lay out for another one.  I suppose it really isn't a scam as the title implies, I guess I'm just pissed off that I have to start actually manually brushing my teeth again.  Plus, I'm pretty sure that I can't do near as good a job as the sonic waves - here come the cavities...

Good news is, I have a trunk full of free blue Oral-B toothbrushes and unwaxed dental floss in my car.