Dick was lying in the chair while Schiller reattached the teeth Batman had just knocked out. In other words, he really was seeing a dentist.
But Schiller was not actually a dentist. Vampire teeth had a unique structure, and even a real dentist might not have known what to do.
Just as Schiller had expected, there was a gland above the two fangs. The X-rays showed that it resembled a snake's venom gland. Once it sensed the pressure of blood flowing into the cavity, it released venom. This was the key to turning humans into vampires.
Batman had collected the venom, hoping to develop a reverse antidote, but there was one problem he could not explain—being contaminated by the venom alone could not turn someone into a vampire. The most important step of the Embrace was that the person being transformed had to willingly drink the transformer's blood.
Batman guessed that the venom might react with the transformer's blood and thereby turn a person into a vampire. But he had also collected Dick's blood and found nothing unusual. Judging from the blood test results alone, there was not even any indication that he was a vampire.
Batman had custom-made two new canine teeth for Dick, nearly identical to his original ones. But because his gums could no longer support them, Schiller's method was to secure the false teeth to the surrounding teeth, the approach most dentists would have taken.
Dick tried to resist, because everyone knew that most things Batman gave you came with weapons or surveillance devices attached. They were not safe to carry on your person, let alone put in your mouth.
Dick wanted his fangs back, but unfortunately, that was even harder, because both fangs were now in Schiller's hands.
As Schiller worked on Dick's mouth, he