NEW ANÆSTHETIC.
PAINLESS DENTISTRY. A visit to a dentist’s surgery will not iu future be such a dread ordeal as it is at present, if a new local anaesthetic fulfils tho iiromise of its early use.
It is stilted (says tlie Daily Mail) to be far more satisfactory than cocaine, for apparently there'aro no illeffects' after its administration, and iractically no shock. It is injected Tom a metal syringe just above or below, the troublesome tooth, and in a moment or so there is a curious blanching of the gum, which assumes a sort of cheesy consistency. The'operation is then performed with very little discomfort to the patient. Dentists who have experimented with this anaesthetic have found that eases in which pair, is felt during the extraction, of teeth are remarkably free. It is recorded that a medical man called on a dentist and wanted a very bad tootli taken out. Novocaine was injected, but even then the dentist had a difficult, task. He apologised for tlie twinges he was conduced lie had caused, hut' the doctor declared he had suffered no pain at all.
- Rovocaiije was only brought into Jin tain in June, 1900, so that expertments up till now have not been vorv general. . -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2112, 21 June 1907, Page 1
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206NEW ANÆSTHETIC. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2112, 21 June 1907, Page 1
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