Re: Baryton Boink

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:26:58 +1000, Peter Moylan
<peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My dentist seems to use a two-stage process. First there's the injection
to ease the pain of the second injection, and then there's the second
injection. I've never been sure of the details, because the mirror is
badly located, but it seems to work.

A technique that was used on me[1] was to use for the first stage a
small pad impregnated with anaesthetic which was put in contact with
the skin where the needle was to go. After 15 to 30 seconds the area
and the underlying tissue were sufficiently numbed for the injection
to be painless.

[1] This was not done by my normal dentist. He had passed me to the
local School of Dentistry[2] for treatment of a persistent gum
imfection. Such Schools need a steady supply of patients with
interesting conditions for students to "cut their teeth on", if
you'll pardon the expression.[3]

[2] The School of Dentistry was (and is) administratively one of a
group of hospitals, etc. which are part of the UK National Health
Service. But for academic purposes, as a teaching establishment, it
School is also part of the local University.

I kept very quiet about the fact that I was employed in the central
computing services department of that university. Our department's
responsibility included the supply of various computing and
networking services to the School of Dentistry. So as not to be
"harassed" by university people with computing problems my
colleagues and I found it best to keep quite about our work.

[3] My first visit to the SofD was unusual. The appointment time was
during the School's midday lunch break. After some confusion at the
reception desk I found myself being examined by a student dentist in
a lonely corner of a room equipped with another ten or so dentist's
chairs.

After the student had examined me a man in a white coat came and
quizzed the student about what he had found and read the notes that
the student had made. The man turned out to be the dentist in charge
of my case. He explained that the student was in the middle of the
end-of-year written and practical exams which would determine
whether he would continue to the next year of his course. The
student's examination of my teeth and mouth had been one of the
practical sessions in this end-of-year assessment.

The student had been extremely nervous when examining me. As I said
to my own dentist when I next saw him "That is the only case I know
of where the dentist was more terrified than the patient".

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
.

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