Why Is Everyone on TikTok Crushing on Dentists? We Investigated

Bartenders, firemen, pilots… plenty of professions have inspired a little swooning over the years. I mean, who hasn’t scribbled their number on a bar tab, given a flirtatious smile to a firefighter, or daydreamed about flying off into the sunset with a charming pilot? But there’s a new profession that has the internet collectively clutching its pearls: dentists. Yes, the same people you once dreaded seeing every six months, the ones whose tools and fluorescent lights haunted your dreams, are suddenly the unlikely object of fascination.

TikTok is in the middle of a full-on dentist-crush renaissance, turning specialists into mini celebrities and making oral hygiene unexpectedly thrilling. Take Dr. Matt Kaiser, for example, who has racked up 35K followers from his daily vlogs, or Dr. Brett at Apa Aesthetics, whose laid-back NYC update caught everyone’s attention. Scroll through the comments, and you’ll find people saying things like “If this were my dentist, I’d be sucking down bags of sugar” or “I need 50 dental appointments.”