Head Elf : Do you mind telling me what you do want to do?

Hermey : Well, sir, someday, I'd like to be a... a dentist.

Head Elf : A - dentist?

Hermey : Well, we need one up here. I've been studying. It's fascinating; you've no idea. Molars and bicuspids and incisors...

Head Elf : [interrupts] Now listen, you: you're an elf, and elves make toys.

[shoving the dentistry book away and shoving the cart that Hermey was painting back to him]

Head Elf : Now, get to work!

The man who warned the American troops that the British were coming practiced a number of trades to make ends meet, including dentistry, which he learned from a surgeon who was boarding at the house of a friend.

James "Doc" Holliday might be best known as a gunslinger, gambler and outlaw, but before taking on the Wild West he graduated from dental college and practiced dentistry in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pearl Zane Grey was an extremely successful novelist whose work helped define the Western genre and influences books and movies and TV shows to this day. He studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and as he was starting his literary career, he set up a dental practice in New York to be close to publishers.

Osmanski's time as a fullback for the Holy Cross football team earned him a place in the College Football Hall of Fame. After college he played for the Chicago Bears, during which he earned a degree in dentistry from Northwestern University. After the Bears he coached Holy Cross football for two years, then left football to start a dental practice in Chicago.

As a track and field star, Dallas Long set six world records in shot put and won a gold medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics on Tokyo. When he retired from competition, he became a dentist and physician specializing in emergency medicine.

Arlin signed with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1966 and enrolled at Ohio State University’s School of Dentistry, where he received his DDS in 1971. When his baseball career ended in 1974, he returned to dental school to become an endodontist, a specialist in tooth pain and root canals. He practiced for 25 years before retiring in 2004.

When an off-season skiing injury sidelined him for good, “Gentleman Jim” opted for a career in dentistry instead of going to medical school as he had once planned. He graduated from Tufts Dental School in 1983 and went into private practice soon afterward.

As a grad student in the Ohio State Dental School, Horvath in 1944 was a unanimous All-American, Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten, and won the Heisman Trophy. He graduated from dental school in 1945; served two years in the Navy; played three years of pro football with the Rams and Browns, and then practiced dentistry in Los Angeles.

After completing his football career, Schmidt attended Loyola University Dental School in Chicago, Illinois where he graduated first in his class in 1989. His entire professional dental career has been spent working in the Veterans Administration hospital system, first at the North Chicago VA Hospital where he was Chief of Dental Services for six years, later at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Florida and the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina.