Famous People with the history of Oral Surgery
“Beginning in the very earliest of times, any surgical operation was literally an agonizing, terrifying ordeal-a living and many times, a dying hell. Even a trip to the dentist for a tooth extraction was a much feared, and dreaded experience.”Imagine yourself, walking down a dusty, cobblestone road, with this excruciating toothache, one so bad that it’s almost unbearable. You stop at the barber’s cart sitting off to the side of the road to see what all can be done to your tooth. The barber, wearing no gloves and having no experience in this field, finishes the person before you. The barber, who has not washed his hands, tells you to open up wide. With bugs and dust flying all around you, you open your mouth and the barber puts an instrument (one that was previously in the other person’s mouth) into your mouth and tells you that he is going to have to pull the tooth. The barber, along with 4-10 strong men who are holding you down, pulls the tooth right out without having any sort of anesthetic. Along with the tooth is a piece of your jawbone. You scream! All you could think of was the pain. As days go by, you now have a horrible infection. Puss is seeping from where the tooth was and is pouring down the back of your th
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Approximate Word count = 1244
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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