Test Pattern

A girl goes to see her dentist and he takes x-rays with his fancy new imaging device that has amazing detection powers. Lo and behold, it detects a shadow that indicates something is possibly embedded in her jaw—a cyst perhaps—that could rearrange her teeth, fracture her jaw, or worse. Or not. Rare, but it happens.

What’s a girl to do? Well smart girls who are heads of households do not mess around. They take the doctor’s advice and go under the knife; a drill, actually, through her jawbone, w...