Common Sense Evaluation

His dentist built a standard dental plate and fitted it into his mouth and it worked just fine.

In three months, the man was back at his dentist. The dentist looked in his mouth, and the plate he had just put in was so deteriorated it was beyond repair.

The dentist was shocked that it had only lasted three months, so he constructed a new plate and had stainless steel used as the basis.

But again in about three months the patient was back, and the stainless steel plate was corroded and failing.

This time he had the plate made with titanium, but once more it only lasted a matter of months before deteriorating beyond repair.

Totally baffled, he sent the patient to a dental professor known to be an expert in the construction of dental plates to see if he could solve this puzzle.

The professor examined his mouth and quizzed the man about his dental hygiene and diet. “There must be something very acidic that you eat a lot of.” The dentist said.

“To tell the truth,” the man replied, “My wife makes the absolute best hollandaise sauce in the world. I put it on everything.”

“Aha!” The professor exclaims. “Have your dentist make you a new plate out of chrome and you shouldn’t have any more problems!”

“Chrome?” The patent asks. “Why chrome?”

“Because,” the dentist replies, “There’s no plate like chrome for the hollandaise!”