Dentists and experiences in the past

[Robbiet]

Bentall once broke one of my teeth while attempting to extract it Told me to come back in a couple of days when he could fit me in.A pleasant experience him digging the root out

[soft ayperth]

I remember my first visit to a dentist was under the NHS at a clinic at Manor Top--early '50s. A woman used a foot pedal driven machine to drill one of my teeth. It was a slow grind and so painful I said to my mum afterwards that I'd never go to a dentist again. I did, because I found one working outside the NHS system.

 

Btw did you know that in those days they used cocaine as a local anesthetic?

[RiffRaff]

I remember my first visit to a dentist was under the NHS at a clinic at Manor Top--early '50s. A woman used a foot pedal driven machine to drill one of my teeth. It was a slow grind and so painful I said to my mum afterwards that I'd never go to a dentist again. I did, because I found one working outside the NHS system.

 

Btw did you know that in those days they used cocaine as a local anesthetic?

 

Almost a duplicate story from me, except I was in Eire at the time.

Yes, a foot pedal drill, and yes, bloody awful to a kid aged 10-ish.

One major difference between our stories was that my dentist was interrupted - phone call or surgery visitor, I can't remember - and wandered off, leaving the drill bit partially inserted.

I can remember walking home later - the middle of any icy winter - and letting the cold get into the tooth.

It was agonising for hours.

[biker]

Bentall once broke one of my teeth while attempting to extract it Told me to come back in a couple of days when he could fit me in.A pleasant experience him digging the root out[/quote He must have made a fortune out of my treatment.I went age 17 to have a tooth out.He pulled it out and then filled all my teeth and fitted me a denture over the next few weeks.At least it was free to me.

[petcharlie]

Bentall once broke one of my teeth while attempting to extract it Told me to come back in a couple of days when he could fit me in.A pleasant experience him digging the root out[/quote He must have made a fortune out of my treatment.I went age 17 to have a tooth out.He pulled it out and then filled all my teeth and fitted me a denture over the next few weeks.At least it was free to me.

 

I have two really awful memories of the dentist.One was at the School dentist at Hatfield House Lane School and the other at a dentist on Attercliffe Common just a few doors past the Pavilion cinema .They both used Cocaine or gas both were very unpleasant .The taste and smell of the mask was horrid.I would be around 5 or 6 about 1955.