It's not clear that there is any causal relationship between the dentist appointment and the resulting events. Possibly this event was bound to happen and it j

It's not clear that there is any causal relationship between the dentist appointment and the resulting events. Possibly this event was bound to happen and it just so happened that the subject was visiting a dentist. At least I hope people won't get even more scared of dentists after reading this... but I guess BBC succeeded in that.