More facts like that should be told to people so that people will stop being frightened of dentists.
Actually, people are scared of the pain they feel dentists will bring them. That's because in the
history of dentistry, dentists brought pain to many people while filling cavities and extracting
teeth. Although through the years dentists have employed wonderful means of taking pain away from
the work they do in people's mouths, people still writhe at dental tools going into their mouths.
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There are few to no other professionals pay to put their fingers in their mouths. You would never
pay a plumber to do it. Nor would you pay certain other doctors to do it. Certainly you would not
allow your urologist to do it.
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So even the modern dentist faces difficulty trying to make patients comfortable, so those of you
just setting up your practice should probably order all the laughing gas you can get so that if
you hear noises from patients as you crown their teeth or do root canals or braces, you will hear
laughing.
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Those of you that have not taken the course on numbing and knocking out, as the students call it,
should know that laughing gas is formally called Nitrous Oxide, and it is a safe sedative agent
that you mix with oxygen. The patient never falls to sleep, he or she just relaxes and gets giddy.
Make a note that if your patient falls to sleep from Nitrous Oxide, he or she may have died.
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I heard some moaning in the audience. Don't worry; death on the dental chair is very rare. Most of
the time death through dental work happens hours after the patient has left the chair. But all in
all, things are well in the dental world and the new technologies will only help new dentists get
to the root of the problems that have given this profession a bad name. Just remember, that bad
name is nowhere near as bad as pedophile. Thank you and good night.
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Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You
can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.
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