What were frontier dentists able to do medically besides pull teeth and make primitive dentures?
Frank Fantozzi
San Jose, California
“Agonizing toothache, horrifying extractions and barbaric tools have cast a large shadow over our dental past,” stated Joanna Bourke, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London. No truer words were ever spoken.
Trained dentists in the Old West sometimes had nitrous oxide to numb the pain, but often, they gave patients a shot of whiskey. Extracti
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