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I went to the dentist yesterday. <\/strong><\/p>\n

As long as I can remember I have had lousy teeth. As a child in the fifties and sixties I developed multiple tooth cavities by the time I was ten. In those days the only solution was a terrifyingly slow belt-driven drill that splashed pieces of enamel everywhere and literally caused smoke to waft from your mouth.<\/p>\n

The dentist had to stop every so often to let the drill cool down so he could continue to torture me, unavoidably.<\/p>\n

He said hopelessly soothing, sympathetic things. All I remember is that the shots of Novocaine were excrutiatingly painful and seemed useless in the long run. The pain of having my teeth drilled shot like a volley of needles through every nerve of my rigid body. The antiseptic smell, swathed in wisps of tooth smoke, was nauseating.<\/p>\n

We didn’t have air conditioning. The doctor, his assistant and I all sweated profusely.<\/p>\n

This went on for hours.<\/p>\n

I was a child. I cried piteously before, during and after each visit.<\/p>\n

State of the art dental science fifty years ago was arguably worse than fifty years prior when all a dentist could do was give you a stiff shot of whiskey and yank a tooth out of your head. That, at least, was quick.<\/p>\n

They also did shaves and haircuts.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I received two root canals. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The room was cool, my mouth was numb and my head was clear. Fearlessly and without a single flash of pain I chatted amiably before and after the procedures with the dentist and his assistant.<\/p>\n

The only moment of discomfort I felt was when the assistant leaned into me as I was supine before her. Her right boob accidentally mashed against my arm which I was unable to extricate for fear that any movement might be misconstrued as something inappropriate.<\/p>\n

Fifty years ago Dr. Clifford would have never filled my mouth with tools. He needed to get his hands in there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday my mouth was propped open by a rubber block the size of a PT Cruiser spare tire. I had a wire bracket framing my mouth. Stretched across that was a thin, stretchy sheet of rubber which allowed the dentist to isolate the tooth he was working on and not forget where he was.<\/p>\n

That seems like a good idea to me.<\/p>\n

I also had a saliva-sucking vacuum hose in my mouth, constantly on the move and under the impeccable direction and guidance of the booby assistant.<\/p>\n

There were clamps and odd-looking gadgets, a pair of pliers, I believe, and I’m not positive but pretty sure he also hung a rearview mirror and a rubber-bulbed bicycle horn on my mouth.<\/p>\n

“Feeling comfortable?” he asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2010 by David L. Williams, all rights reserved<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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