TEETH EXTRACTION
| AN AMERICAN METHOD. | I CONDEMNED BY BRITISH DENTISTS. (Received 12.3 p.m.) LONDON, February 21. “A thoroughly had operation” is how British dentists describe a new extraction, method which Americans practising in London are attempting to introduce. Patients are given a strong local anaesthetic, the skin of the gum is peeled back and the bone surrounding the tooth is chipped, after which the tooth is lifted out without a wrench. “I have had to mend several jaws as a result of this hacking treatment, ” said a London dentist, who pointed out that the most modern and least painful < method was a regional anaesthesia, < thereby temporarily paralysing the « main nerve of the jaw, not a local tooth 1 nerve.—A. and N.Z. t =■' •■■ —— '' i
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1926, Page 5
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123TEETH EXTRACTION Northern Advocate, 22 February 1926, Page 5
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