Bloodletting and Bone Brushes: The White-Knuckle Days of Early Dentistry
With all those gleaming , unsullied - steel dick readied for afflictive prodding , few mass look forward to visiting the dentist . But modern dentistry is a manner of walking in the common compare with antiquated methods of treat oral maladies : Be glad you ’re not seek treatment formysterious “ tooth worm ” or using dentures filled with the syphilitic tooth of idle soldiers . “ Dentistry , as we understand it today , did n’t emerge as a licensed profession until the end of the nineteenth century , although practitioners had been calling themselves dental practitioner since the late 1700s , ” says Dr....