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Dental Drama: What They Don't Tell You When You Sit in the Chair
Paperback
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Stephanie M Seaton
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Behind every bright smile is a story no one sees.
Vanessa Carter thought she was choosing a career in healthcare.
She didn't know she was stepping into a system.
Inside pristine waiting rooms and polished practices, Vanessa becomes the quiet heart of dentistry - calming anxious patients, protecting frightened children, and holding space where care should live. But behind the scenes, she witnesses what most patients never will: ethical lines blurred, power misused, silence rewarded, and truth punished.
As a Black woman navigating professional spaces that both depend on her and erase her, Vanessa learns that being competent is not enough, being kind is not protection, and being honest is often dangerous. The more she brings compassion and integrity into the room, the more the room pushes back.
Across a series of dental offices, Vanessa is forced to choose between survival and self-respect, between belonging and becoming.
Dental Drama is a raw, intimate, and quietly powerful workplace novel about emotional labor, systemic injustice, and the cost of being the conscience inside institutions that resist accountability.
It is a story for anyone who has ever loved their work - and been wounded by it.
For anyone who has ever carried a room that did not carry them.
And for anyone who has ever had to walk away in order to finally come home to themselves.
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