
Do you need a dental clean? Are you a decent Smash Bros. Ultimate player and happen to be located in the US?
If you answered "yes" to all of these questions then perhaps you should consider the following offer. Zen Family Dental in Ashland, Massachusetts of the United States is giving Smash Bros. players the chance to win a "free dental clean" if they beat its dentist Dr. Tej A. Shah in a match. If you lose though, you'll have to tell the entire world you lost to a dentist.
Can you imagine playing Smash Bros. against your dentist? It would be quite the experience, right? And hey, if you've had any bad experiences with dentists in the past, this might make it a little easier.

It's also got us wondering who he mains... Dr. Mario or maybe Wario, Piranha Plant, or Incineroar - they've got some large chompers. Actually, it might be Cloud or Sephiroth! According to Zen's website, Dr. Shah's favourite video game series is Final Fantasy. Comments on the above video also suggest it is Little Mac and (more recently) Pyra / Mythra.
Would you take up an offer like this? Are you due for a visit to the dentist anytime soon? Leave a comment down below.
[source youtu.be, via nintendoenthusiast.com]
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This is genius! He gets new people to play against, without the lag that comes with online!
Time to become a dentist....
Okay, but like... if I can beat him at 25 rounds, can we discuss giving me a free root canal?
I'm an orthodontist... should I do this for free braces? 😂
Or you can live in a country which has just passed free dental care! Wouldn’t say no to a free deep clean though, that’s pretty cool.
I don't really need my medical professionals thinking up silly promotions. I'll go, get my dental work done in a serious workplace environment, give them my insurance card and happily pay the copay.
On the other hand, at least this is a fun story. Just Google "dentist assault" and be prepared for some truly awful stuff.
In the article I read he said he played little mac and that was also 'pretty good' at pyra/mythra. Yeah I'm pretty sure I could beat him.
@JHDK I had a horrible dentist experience recently. Told my brother about it, and he said two people died at that same dentist's office a while back within like a week of each other. He couldn't believe I didn't know about it. So now I'm seeing someone an hour away to treat the botched dental work the guy did to me. (Nothing serious, fortunately, but I'm probably gonna need a root canal.) I don't think I need to Google anything, lol.
Thats actually a really fun way to do it.
@iLikeUrAttitude Wait till he sees me.
Watch he’s top 3 in the country or something, that would be a gas!
Not sure what's worse: endure being at the dentist or that very same thing but with the added salt of losing to said dentist.
The horror!
Imagine being so wealthy that you can just offer not to be paid for your job if someone beats you in a video game...
Honestly I don't find this cool, I find it somewhat selfish.
If he's that well off, he could offer his time and skills to help those who cannot afford dental services.
Because it's America, healthcare is a privilege, not a right.
@Heavyarms55
Lighten up mate. He's doing it for the community through a way to attract young people. No matter what people try to do, people will always see it with negative light on it. I understand your point, but at least he chooses to do it in a fun way so that his place gets some recognition and also attract more customers. I've even seen video's were people were literally giving money to people who needs it and on the comment section there were people complaining why the need to give money to people, they could go look out for a job instead being given free money. What im trying to say is, it cost nothing to be a person to do good in this dark world.
This man is now officially the coolest Dentist of the year 2021, he deserves a nomination! 👏🏼Bravo!
(reads he uses Pyra/Mythra)
Welp, there goes my chance of getting a free dental clean.
Dentists are fueled by hate, I would never be able to take one on in a fighting game. On the other hand, the eye doctor where I got my first pair of glasses told me Mortal Kombat’s blood code. Those were times.
Haha I like this guy he seems pretty cool to me.
I don't know who he mains, but I bet he's got Drill item spawns set to max.
@WreckitRyan As someone in the middle of paying 2k for braces, yes. Yes you should.
This is kinda dystopian.
Prepare to feel cold defeat by my Princess Peach crown, Dentist! Huzzah!!
I think this is very cute, honestly!
I would have thought, if you lose, he will punch your teeth out and you have to PAY him to fix it. Well, missed opportunity, I guess... 🤷♂️
Dentists, solicitors, the tax man, they are all the same!!
Flicking their wads at the minions as they chuckle to themselves.
@DoubleDate It’s quite telling of the cultural divide between America and the rest of the developed world that people who attend a dental clinic are referred to as ‘customers’. Up until now the only word I’d ever heard was ‘patients’.
Different schools of thought.
"If you live in the US"
For most of the US =
"Ya, my dentist is a several hour flight away. But at least I can whoop him at SSBU to get that free cleaning."
Jus went to dentist on Monday...wish my dentist was this cool 😆
@Maxz
Why does it always needs to be a hostile answer? Like insulting someone that he/her lack some education degree due to a simple word. I mean educated people don't go around the internet looking for a flaw to attack someone else.
Anyways, yes people who are going to the dentist are patients. But going to the dentist is not always 100% free. The "patient" needs to pay his/her bills to any insurance company that doesn't cover your full expenses. So you can have your own dentist company but without "customers" your company Isn't goint to make any dime. It Isn't like, that hospitals or any other companies are going to send people to your company , you need to do something so that you have more people visiting and that is what this dentist is doing. Free advertisement and doing something good in return.
Too bad it’s not Melee... and that he’s in Mass. 😅 But that’s pretty cool
@nessisonett Which one(s)?
@Chocobo_Shepherd Scotland’s just passed free dental care for all under 25s. Think we already have it free if you earn below a certain amount as well. I definitely got braces when I was younger for free so I’d assume it was. There’s also the dental hospital in the city centre that you can go to for free since it’s the dental students that’ll work on you for experience. Plenty options anyway!
@nessisonett So this is entirely Scotland you're talking about?
@Chocobo_Shepherd Well in my experience yeah. Think the rest of the UK has similar options on the NHS too. Other countries with forms of social healthcare like Denmark, for example, usually have some type of dental care covered or reduced but always non-cosmetic for obvious reasons.
uk we get it for free? cool for US citizens tho
@nessisonett aren't those the countries everyone says we shouldn't emulate because they are so ethnically non-diverse?
@Chocobo_Shepherd Uh, what are you talking about? If you’re referring to Scandi countries being homogenous then you’d not exactly be correct, 19% of Sweden’s population were born outside the country for example. I’m genuinely confused as to what point you’re trying to make here. Why should we dismiss countries without a specific number of citizens of ethnic minorities?
@Deady ABACAB?
If only a local psychiatrist/doctor would do this. Could finally get that sweet anxiety medicine to defeat the hardest boss I've faced in my life..
@nessisonet Ever tried registering with one of those 'free dentists' in Scotland? I've been trying for three years with no success
if only he played Street Fighter instead. I've never been terribly proficient at Smash.
@nessisonett That's not necessarily what I believe, but I've been hearing that sentiment voiced a lot lately, yes.
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