TUSSLE WITH DENTIST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12603, 12 July 1935, Page 7

TUSSLE WITH DENTIST

NURSE TO THE RESCUE. UNUSUAL EFFECTS OF GAS. As all dentists know, not every patient is a suitable subject for “gas.” This fact was demonstrated in a Wellington dental surgery on Wednesday morning when a young tnan, after being given gas, leaped from the chair and involved the dentist in a, tussle which disturbed most of the furniture in the room as well as the equanimity of all concerned. On arrival at the surgery the patient, having expressed a wish to takp gas for an extraction,, was asked as usual if lie knew himself to he a “good gas patient.” To some people gas is merely an incident: they breathe it , in, sleep and, having reawakened, leave, the -surgery with cheerful nonchalance. With others gas has an upsetting .effect, arid in those cases dentists usually, advise alternative forms of anaesthesia. Believing himself to be in the I'm iner class, the young man called for ga-s. He settled himself in the chair and sniffed . . . When lie woke he was kneeling in the middle of the loom and grappling with the dentist. The nurse was gripping him from behind in a. .valiant species of headlock, but this was not preventing him from giving the dentist, some anxious moments. Normally an inoffensive person, the young man was horrified to discover that ho had done liis best to wreck the surgery. A desk was out of place and a table awry. The nurse was alarmed and the dentist inclined to be peevish. The young man had the beginning of a black eye—but the tooth was untouched. After a general dusing down and a little talk the operation was completed, this time with a local anaesthetic.