Over time, the silly season in Catholic liturgy that peaked in the 1970s—clown masses (with the priest vested as Bozo or somesuch), free-for-all prayers that ignored the prescribed rite, dreadful pop music, inept liturgical dance, a general lack of decorum—began to recede.

These defects may be more pronounced in the superior visual field, perhaps corresponding to the inferior predilection for the snowflake lesions.

A dual-cure composite resin (Luxacore Z-Dual, DMG) postendodontic restoration was given.

Bentwood chairs faced pine counters littered with wadded Kleenex, spent greasepaint tubes, empty soft-drink cans, under squares of cheap mirror, lightbulbed on either side, flecked with powder.