The Dentist is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Brian Yuzna and written by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon, and Charles Finch.

[2] Dr. Alan Feinstone is a Los Angeles dentist who, despite his professional success, quietly suffers from extreme obsessive–compulsive disorder and is preoccupied with cleanliness and perfection.

Alan invents a story about a surprise party for Brooke and watches Paula invite Matt inside.

At his dental practice, Alan's first appointment goes poorly when he hallucinates a child patient having rotten teeth and accidentally stabs him.

As Detective Gibbs investigates the death of Paula's dog, Alan sees his second patient, April Reign, a beauty queen.

Alan ends the day early and sends his staff and patients home, including Sarah, a teenager who wants her braces removed.

At the police station, Detective Sunshine discovers that the bullet pulled from Paula's dog only matches one gun in the area: Alan's.

IRS agent Marvin Goldblum, using Alan's tax problems as leverage, extorts a free dental exam and a payout.

When Alan recaptures her, Sarah hysterically promises to brush her teeth three times a day and never eat candy.

As he hallucinates and shoots a dental student that he mistakes for Matt, the detectives burst into the room, but Alan uses a hostage to escape.

[5] Allmovie called it a subpar horror-comedy about dental anxiety that "adds nothing new to the mix besides over-the-top images of mouths being desecrated and queasy allusions to the alleged filthiness of oral sex".

[6] TV Guide rated it 2 out of 4 stars and wrote, "In its state of Grand Guignol-overkill, this offbeat chiller is bound to offend those viewers who wish the offspring of Sam Raimi and Stuart Gordon would learn the use of filmmaking restraint.