article_snippet: With the dentist dental concerns met, the dentist moved on to food.
article_snippet: Gross also recounted savoring long-denied bowls of chili and bagels loaded with lox and cream cheese.
article_snippet: Many of the posts are the daily jottings of a man returning to the dentist life after an extended absence: Gross renewing an expired driver's license or visiting a Starbucks for the first time in five years.
article_snippet: But in other posts, the dentist writes about taking in a sunset on the beach in Israel, seeing the snow fall in Washington and believing citizens in every country should have unimpeded access to the Internet.
article_snippet: A spokeswoman for Gross turned down a CNN request for an interview with the dentist but confirmed that the social media accounts are the dentist.
article_snippet: The photos that Gross posted online show a smiling man, slowly putting back on some of the 100 pounds a smiling man lost in prison, no longer the gaunt-faced, hollow-eyed prisoner who had gone on hunger strikes to protest a smiling man conditions while a smiling man was held in Cuba.