Amateur Dentistry
Dentistry is a craft which is usually left to those who are qualified to practice it, but a barman in a Christchurch hotel recently stopped pulling the beer pump - for long enough to pull a tooth which was causing trouble. The patient had just suffered a spill from his bicycle and a tooth had been loosened in the fall. What he lacked in skill the barman made up for in initiative and, seating the sufferer in a chair he produced a pair of forceps with which, after a preliminary scuffle he extracted the offending tooth. Contrary to usual practice, the patient took the anaesthetic after the operation.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 98, 24 February 1947, Page 8
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109Amateur Dentistry Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 98, 24 February 1947, Page 8
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