Why Did The Dentist Character Disappear?

In the first two seasons, they had the paranoid Dr. Kaplan, guitar-playing Dr. Cardosa and the Japan-loving Dr. Futterman who agreed to do dental work on Sgt. Zale in exchange for a pass to Tokyo.

I wonder why the series pretty well stopped having a dentist as an occasional character. They could even just had different actors each time for comic effect.


I was born Japanese. I have a feeling that I was kidnapped by a dentist whose wife was barren and spirited away to East Orange. My life there has only been prologue to my final destiny: Underwater dentist in an all-night bathhouse.

Uh, look, we're good, but we can't get you a transfer to Japan.

I only want three days. I wanna visit a Shinto shrine. I wanna see the Kabuki.
I wanna spend an evening with a girl I can think about in years to come when my wife is talking to me.

Okay. We'll see Henry.

Henry? In the great mouth of life, Henry Blake is but a temporary filling.