May 4th is Taiwan’s "Dentist’s Day," a date born from a pun on the Japanese word for cavity, mushiba.
Taiwan’s dental history evolved from Dr. Mackay’s 19th-century "temple-front extractions" to the professional "Shika" clinics of the Japanese era and the skilled craftsmanship of early denture makers.
Today, those retro signs and the collective dread of the dentist’s drill remain a shared cultural memory. What’s your biggest dental fear: the shrill sound of the drill or hearing "it’s a deep cavity"?