DENTISTS AND PATIENTS
♦ : A New York dentist has been making public the results of his observations on the behaviour of his patients. He is accustomed, for instance, to send out six months after a patient's visit a reminder card suggesting that it is time for another inspection. These cards always bring women patients back, even if their teeth need no attention but a little cleaning, but they have no effect upon the men. "A man," he says, "discovers a small cavity in a tooth, but thinks he may as well wait till it is larger; or. he finds there are other cavities, and he may as well have all done at once. His is the wholesale manner of mind." The same dentist reports that women are more patient than men when in the dental chair, but does not_ think they are as long suffering as their mothers. Sometimes they are so nervous that it takes two hours to give their teeth a polishing that should be completed in twenty minutes, whereas in an earlier generation little delicate women would have all their teeth pulled out at one sitting, refusing an anasthetic.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 55, 2 September 1926, Page 17
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191DENTISTS AND PATIENTS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 55, 2 September 1926, Page 17
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