Floating candles in the waiting room, moving portraits in the hallway, Voldemort treating patients in the dental chair. A trip to the orthodontist this…
Floating candles in the waiting room, moving portraits in the hallway, Voldemort treating patients in the dental chair. A trip to the orthodontist this Halloween felt more like a day at Hogwarts.The two joined forces to treat muggles -- sorry, patients -- this week at Mateer Orthodontics in New York, where the office was transformed into the wizarding world for Halloween.
"I figured I had to be either Voldemort or Dumbledore," Mateer said."I felt like I had to go with the more evil of the two.”"It's hot and the sound reverberates back in my ear in there," Mateer said of wearing the deceptively heavy Voldemort mask for a pair of eight-hour business days."But it's kind of become a thing where I am basically going to wear something uncomfortable every Halloween.
“I really, genuinely care about people coming here and feeling comfortable, being happy. Nothing makes me happier than hearing parents say my child actually enjoys coming here, wants to come to the dentist, which I think typically is not what it’s about. That combined with the fact that I’m just a big kid, honestly.”
“We start planning in the end of July, beginning of August,” said Kristy Roocke, the office’s treatment coordinator who dressed as Hermione. “A few days before, we're here all day every day just grinding it out.”The staff at Mateer Orthodontics in Commack, New York dressed as characters from"Harry Potter" for Halloween.
A lifesize statue of Dobby holding a sock greeted guests as they entered the waiting room, which also featured flying envelopes and the door to the cupboard under the stairs . Flickering candles were suspended in air -- as was a flying car driven by Harry and Ron Weasley -- and the banners for all four Hogwarts houses were displayed over the “Great Hall” windows.
Diagon Alley featured places like Ollivanders wand shop, with storefront windows tacked to the wall that the staff created out of oak tag, poster board, wooden dolly pegs and cellophane wrap.
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