"Open Wider, Please"
HERE is something a little intimidating about 4YA’s talks on dentistry; I can’t help feeling a certain sympathy with the patients mentioned in this series, as though the speakers brought with them to the microphone a waitingroom aura of ancient magazines and ether fumes, and the sensitive listener must suffer vicariously at the very descriptions of methods used in the ritual of the chair and the electric drill, I enjoyed the one about anaesthesia. It is comforting, after all, to know that there was a time when people had to have teeth extracted without benefit of gas; that an early "taker" of an anaesthetic, after saying that he never felt better in his life, afterwards "went out to it" for the remainder of the day; nice to feel that those days are gone, and that dentists have things so much under control now that a mere jab of a needle will enable us to undergo the terrors of having a tooth out without a single pang.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 8
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169"Open Wider, Please" New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 8
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