Akiba Dental Clinic: The Akihabara dentist wherever a moe maid in cosplay cleans your tooth

This new dentist would like to make otaku dreams arrive accurate.

Tokyo’s Akihabara, or “Akiba” as it is affectionately regarded in otaku circles, has extensive been known as a place where moe, emotions of sturdy passion towards 2-D figures in media like anime and manga, isn’t just recognized but encouraged and celebrated.

The heat and fuzzy globe of moe is laden with cuteness and a sense of consolation, and it’s the central concept that maid cafes in the region have created their successes on. Now, the idea of maids and moe is currently being utilised to present convenience to one more kind of clientele in a somewhat a lot more nerve-wracking atmosphere — the dentist’s business office.

▼ Which is proper – a moe dentist is opening up in Akihabara.

This abnormal dentist’s workplace goes by the title “Akiba Shika” (“Akiba Dentistry”) in Japanese and “Akiba Dental Clinic” in English. Compared with other dental clinics, this one particular has a hygienist who’s dressed as a maid, and to get every person acquainted with the unusual strategy, a preview event was held for the community on 10-12 June, forward of the clinic’s formal July opening.

Our reporter Seiji Nakazawa stopped by to see what it was all about, and when he arrived, the initially detail that amazed him was the attractiveness of the reception spot, which was thoroughly clean, modern day, tranquil, and inviting.

▼ Then he stepped into the dentist’s room, and that is exactly where he got his to start with glimpse of moe at the dentist.

Those people who’ve always assumed there wasn’t adequate hands-on interaction with maids at a maid cafe will want to make a reserving to get their tooth cleaned below, due to the fact this is a extremely fingers-on encounter.

▼ Value finding a filling for.

During Seiji’s stop by, the maid who attended to him was Riko Konoe (@ko_no_e on Twitter), who’s both equally a cosplayer and a capable dental hygienist. She did a wonderful task of making Seiji experience calm and well cared for, so by the time he sat up all over again he felt as if each his mouth and intellect have been refreshed.

With so several maid cafes all around, Seiji started to marvel why no one experienced imagined to incorporate moe and dentistry just before, so he questioned Joji Yukawa, the dentist and clinic director, about his good reasons for opening the dental clinic.

Seiji: Why did you come to a decision to open a company with this idea?

Dr Yukawa: “I assume there are rather a few persons who are scared of dentists, to the extent that they have a phobia around dentistry. Originally, the setting up level for this business was the wish to have those people today appear to the dentist. Then, when I was wondering about how I could get them to appear, I imagined it would assist if they could have a very good romance with the employees. It would be nice if they could have a dentist who didn’t just check their teeth, but a dentist whom they could talk to as very well.”

Dr Yukawa: “Because I’m essentially a dentist, there is only so a great deal I can do, so the standard treatment method I supply will be the very same as a common dentist. Nevertheless if persons want to just discuss [to allay their fears about dental visits] that would be irregular do the job that a normal dentist does not offer you, so I haven’t determined how to go about that just still — it’ll be worked out through the opening procedure.”

Dr Yukawa unquestionably experienced a type aura about him that would assistance to relaxed any individual with a dental phobia, and occasionally a no cost dental consultation, with a maid by your facet, can be crucial to gently coaxing these extra nervous styles into the dentist’s chair.

Having said that, obtaining a maid in the business could give patients a detrimental effect about everyone’s credentials, so Seiji addressed the elephant in the place by inquiring:

Seiji: Do you present proper dental examinations?

Dr. Yukawa: “Of program. To be truthful, I consider it’s normal for men and women to have that type of effect, so I’m only working with best-of-the-selection equipment. It is some thing I’ve been most careful about.”

Dr Yukawa, who graduated from Nagano Prefecture’s Matsumoto Dental University, features cure for cavities and periodontal disorder, as effectively as dental implant, cleaning, and whitening expert services.

Seiji was hoping tricky to uncover a crack in this seemingly dream-appear-true dental clinic, so he enquired about their unusually late opening hrs.

Seiji: I listened to that Akiba Dental will commence seeing people from 1 July. If you’re a major dentist, why are your organization hrs so different to other dentists? Isn’t it late to function from 2-11 p.m.?

With no missing a beat, Dr Yukawa replied:

“Because our target demographic is not youngsters, it is folks in Akihabara.”

Seiji realised these functioning several hours would undoubtedly go well with all the enterprise personnel in and close to Akihabara, who sometimes really don’t leave the workplace right until after 9:00 p.m. It can be hard to obtain a dentist open up at that time of night, so Akiba Dental has genuinely performed its study on who its focus on shopper is.

Which is when our dentist-fearing, late-evening doing work, moe and maid-loving Seiji realised he was the clinic’s target client.

The group at Akiba Dental seriously do fill a market in the Tokyo dental globe, and now that Seiji has tried using it for himself, he very suggests having to pay them a go to. Soon after you check out the maid cafe with moe ointment and the otaku hair salon, of class.

Locale facts
Akiba Dental Clinic / アキバ歯科
Tackle: Tokyo-to, Chiyoda-ku, Sotokanda 4-4-3, Ogiso Developing 2F
東京都千代田区外神田4-4-3 小木曾ビル2F
Open: 2:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Shut: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
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