Head Surgery: You'll Feel Some PRESSURE!!

The more I learn about dentistry the more I wish it were the 1850s. I mean how cool would it be to have an actual blacksmith working on your mouth, preferably a sweaty one in a leather apron? That’s who pulled teeth in many towns. They they were strong and they had the tools. all kinds of people pulled teeth it seems: Barbers. The odd lawyer. Silversmiths like Paul Revere too maybe. Anyway he made the fake teeth. That’s how they identified poor dead  Joseph Warren after the Battle of Bunker Hill: he had Paulie’s teeth in his mouth.An hour in the future I’m taking my husband’s 89-year-old uncle to have a tooth extracted and a gorgeous fake tooth stuck in. An hour in the past our little grandbaby went under the knife so these hot-shot Boston doctors at Children’s Hospital could simultaneously (a) put a pair of magical infection-preventing tubes in his ears and (b) clip out his adenoids so he can breathe better at night. At the moment this sweet child breathes like Darth Vader while sleeping, with many stops and starts. The picture at the top isn’t of his mouth of course but it’s pretty cool anyway.OK so when are his  parents  going to call to say he’s ok?  I’m grinding my OWN teeth here!