Flash Drawing Script?

hey well long story short, my dad wants me to make a flash
presentation for his dentistry [for the patients] and will pay me
'x' amount of money.
i need to know one thing though, i'm pretty good in flash
[motion tween, alpha, movie clips, graphics, library, etc.] but i
just don't know this one vital thing.
its to make the animation seem like its being drawn. i saw a
tut on this a while ago, but i'm wondering if you have a link to it
or if you can pm me and tell me and help me along.
what i mean by 'being drawn' is like if i drew a line, i want
an easy way [easy being not having to draw the line progress
frame-by-frame] but like maybe having something to do with motion
tween so i can just make the line draw out an entire tooth as the
animation progresses.
[oh and i really really really need this answer quick...he
gave me a month to finish it and i've been procrastinating until
now.]

Rough
Example
Rough
fla

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