|summary=Alfie doesn't believe in fairy tales any more. So when it turns out Miss Root, the new dentist, has certain magical powers, he refuses to accept it. But if he doesn't wise up quickly, he could lose more than just a few gnashers!
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He ought to have realised she was evil from the start. After all, how many dentists do you know who love — yes, really love — rotten teeth? Brown, yellow, cracked, full of cavities, diseased, covered in plaque . . . you get the picture. And for Alfie, a boy who loathes dentists from the bottom of his heart and whose teeth are so rotten they ought to be a tourist attraction, danger definitely looms. You can practically hear the background music when the two meet at a school assembly: dum-dum-DUUUUMMMMMM!!!!