[valkyry1]

who surprisingly is a dentist by nature

If you think about it, maybe not surprising

[giotto]

a dentist by nature

I wasn't aware that professions were genetically determined.

[johniegrad]

Not surprising at all.

When I was in medical school, I roomed with a number of dental students.

One of their ongoing assignments was to use instruments to carve small wax blocks into identical replicas of each tooth in the mouth.

They would spend hours on the things and sometimes had to redo them completely if rejected by their professors.

Dentists have to have patience, good visual-spatial skills, and the ability to persist over what, to me, was incredibly tedious tasks.

It is no surprise that a dentist would do something as intricate and detailed as this.

[NavyCanDo]

Yea, my father in law is a dentist and he will spend hours tinkering with things outside of work. Broken things we would toss out, he will dismantle and fix and put it back together, and sometime just taking things apart to see how they work.