DENTIST'S EXPERIENCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 10

DENTIST'S EXPERIENCE

AT GRIPS WITH PATIENT UNUSUAL EFFECTS OF CAS As all dentists know, not ovary pa'i lent is a suitable subject for “gas.” This fact was demonstrated in a Wellington dental surgery when a. young man, after lining given gas, leaped' from the chair and involved the denlist in a tussle which disturbed most of the furniture in the room as well as the e.'iuanimity ot all concerned. On arrival at Lite surgery the patient, having expressed a wish to take gas tor an extraction, was asked as usual if he knew himself 10 lie a ‘‘good gas patient.’’ To some people gas is merely an incident: they breathe it in,’ sleep and. having reawakened, leave t ire surge,rv with cheerful nonchalance. With ot tiers gas has an upsetting effect, and in these cases dentists usually advise alternative forms of anaesthesia. Believing himself to be in the former class, the young man called toi gas. He settled himself in the dm it and sniffed- . . . When lie awoke lie was kneeling 'in the middle ot tin room and grappling with the - denlist The nurse was gripping him from be liml in a valiant species of head lock, but this was not preventing him ■;rom giving the dentist some anxiou momen i s. Normally an inoffensive person, the young man was horrified to discovci that he had done his best to -wreck the surgery. A desk was out of place ind a table awry. The nurse was alarmed and Iho. dentist inclined to be peevish. The young man had the beginnings Hi - a black eye—bill the tooth was untouched. After a general dusting down and a little talk the operation was completed, I his 1 fine with a local anaesthetic.