SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- In a dentist's office, Zorro looks exactly like what he is: a fish out of water.

The pufferfish, also known as a blowfish, has one heck of an overbite.

"I'm just trimming it shorter so that, over the next year when it grows back again, I'll trim it shorter again," said Dr. Brian Dolberg of Dolberg Dentistry.

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If Zorro's teeth get too big, he'll starve to death. That just won't do for the mascot of one of Scottsdale's most established eateries, Pischke's Paradise.

In an effort to keep those chompers chomping, Dolberg agreed to be Zorro's dentist.

Five years later, dentist and patient know the drill, but Dolberg admits he had first-time jitters.

"He was going to drop him, and he was going to hit the pavement, and it was going to not be good," Dolberg said.

Pischke's owner Tracy Petefish still gets antsy, and so do the patrons of her restaurant.

"There were a lot of phone calls and concerns about, 'Oh my gosh, what's going to happen to Zorro? What's going to happen to Zorro?' and you can be sure that there was a staff of people taking care of Zorro," Petefish said.

The fuss is for good reason, as Zorro's treatment is a delicate, if comic, procedure.

Zorro is in constant danger during the trimming and must be repeatedly placed back into a bucket to retain oxygen.

In about an hour, the work is done and Zorro is back to his little piece of Pischke's Paradise.

Dolberg doesn't charge for the tooth trimming service. He said it's unlikely his insurance company would accept the claim.