“THIS WON’T HURT”

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14067, 23 May 1946, Page 5

“THIS WON’T HURT”

PAINLESS DENTISTRY BY . , HYPNOTISM PATIENTS’ E XPERIENCES RELATED Painless dentistry by hypnotism instead of drugs has been achieved by Mr Roy Norman Bragg, L.D.S., K.C.S. (Eng.), of London. A team of reporters and a photographer investigated his claim to have stepped 1,000 teeth in 'lie last twelve months with complete absence of pain. Two women reporters were the patients. This was the experience of the first: “I sat and looked, as directed, into the eyes of Mr Bragg. In a few seconds I felt my vision clouding and his face getting bigger and bigger and hazier and hazier. I heard his voice from a great distance saying, ‘Go deeper’ You re very tired’ —‘Go deeper.,’ “Mr Bragg told me to open my month. I Knew that I could not close it until he said so. I heard him saying, ‘There is no pain. Yon carnet feel anything, anything. “I heard the voice saying, ‘You can wake up now,’ and a click of lingers. My eyes opened quite casi v. and I felt normal again. “Afterwards my colleagues told me they had tried to awaken me, even pulling my hair and sticking pins into me. I was told it took 15 minutes to till my tooth.” Woman reporter No. 2, described by Mr Bragg as a difficult subject, said: “I was conscious that it was necessary to obey the dentist s instructions. At one stage I wanted to laugh, hut evcntuatlly I drifted into what must have been a coma. “I war amazed when he woke me up and told me that I* had had my tooth dialled and filled.” Mr Bragg sat in a chair beside the patient and, using no band movements, began speaking in a !o,> voice, telling the patient that her eyes felt heavy, that she was sleepy, that she must relax and think of the past and then she would, just doze off. . , Within a few seconds the patient s eyes had closed and she appeared to he asleep.