Burkas

[corylus]

How do burka wearers get their dental treatment?

[Mamyalynne]

At a dentists ?

[doctordb]

lol....you asked for it corylus.

[Zeuhl]

Female dentists

[corylus]

OK OK!

[Mamyalynne]

:-)

[jomifl]

How would they know they need it?

[naomi24]

Jom, that must have been what the woman meant when she asked my to try on her burka and 'feel my pain'. ;o)

[naomi24]

* when she asked me *

[emmie]

same as anyone else presumably by a dental practitioner. Do you mean if they wear a veil do they get their teeth fixed, then presumably they take them off, otherwise it will be a bit of a mess.

[naomi24]

As Zeuhl says, they are treated by female dentists.

[emmie]

of course why didn't i think of that -

[Mamyalynne]

aye

[Peter Pedant]

er they lift up their skirts ?

[mushroom25]

//treated by female dentists.//

but in a society where the burka is de-rigeur, females aren't allowed to go to school. how would a female dentist get to be qualified?

[emmie]

no they do as one female who was wearing a veil did the other day whilst trying to eat, removed it, thus showing her face which had been covered up till then, to all the diners, and public walking past the cafe.

[emmie]

perhaps that means in the UK ?

[Spoonboy]

They a veil themselves!!

[Zeuhl]

/how would a female dentist get to be qualified?/

who says they need to be qualified? ;-)

[naomi24]

Saudi has just about the harshest regime - but females do go to school. The Taliban and certain other sections of society think differently.

//There were 1621 graduates of the College of Dentistry of King Saud University (KSU) since its inception up to 2007 of which 853 graduates were males and 768 were females, respectively. //

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3723103/

[Mamyalynne]

Mushroom, you have never come across a female dentist ?? I am surprised.