Sunday, ApriI 28, 1957 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five
Wisdom Teeth & Their Removal
OUR REPORTER SUBMITS TO A MASOCHISTIC ENTERPRISE'
By ROBERT S. BALL JR.
Daily Staff Writer
V OLUNTARILY allowing four
wisdom teeth to b pulled by
the University dental school is, at
best, a masochisti-z enterprise.
The most attractive considera-
tion is the absurdly low price -
$1 f or a straight pull, and $2.50
or more for an impacted tooth. My
home dentis t would hsve asked
hung by the Jawbone. This re-
quired some incising. A sort of
supervising dental surgeon was
looking over my dentist's shoulder.
The incident which occurred at
this point should hare scared m
right out of the chair .a
Z heard this through my fog,
uttered with some vehemence:
"No, nso! Never do it that way)"
The small pressures on my gumj
open in disbelief at the words,
"It's out." tChocked, I'm sure.)
That one, 'unimpacted, had
taken about thirty seconds.
This was just the beginning,
though. My mouth was still slight-
ly open, with a gauze roll between
the two sockets. Some pills, a
prescription, and a dittoed sheet'
of paper with instructions were
thrust into my hand and I was
$75 for extracting two teeth, stopped. free to go. I was told to reporl
Aohrcn'drio:Icud "Like this?" Resewed pressures. o back the following Saturday tc
look forward to an audience, I "Tea, but I'd do it like this." x have the stitches removed ant
thought. Not that the "operation" A rustling of bodies, followed by < Wednesday for an examination b5
was condsicted in an amphithea- more pressures.k the doctors.
ter. {It was a little crowded with I smiled. I dou'bt if anyone I walked out, mouth slighl
six doctors looking over a den- recognized it as such: My mouth ajar and completely "frozen" oi
tist's chair, but I get ahead of my was wide open, with a chock in- one side. The prescription cost
story.) asuring the opening. moire than the two extraction,
Distractions were 'ever'): fear Atsohspit w hsl'as were going to cost. (Still are,1
of having my skin broken, fear of applied, and the shock was trans- . haven't paid my bill),
possible pain and some concern milled out of the novocained area,, I went home and got into bed
aotatrfet cope wihinto almost-pain. F Ta king the 'arning of the docto.
the dentist's statement that only There were some grindinglseiuyIbrodahtwte
"It' ou." y muthhonoF bottle filled with ice, from m'
D SDS fin fth aiyIn disbelief,.(Still chocked, of hand lightly touched the instro- After ' fag, minutes, Tory asked housemother. It didn't do an:
t). cours'e.)ment table. , '.Look out, that tae if I wante kthe cta's frone out.good, anduItloked asrfouI hadftht
had once had her wisdom teeth tbe
pulled, and some dy made the table's sterilized!"My hand was I groaned -in assent, this time., up(utoe frfu rfv
wrongl mo and mboke hae aw-t "M? "AeI.oralyI tted dow'n. I probably shrugged my shoulders, days.
bon. Icoudn' ge ths ot o my utter a low cheer under these I was crushed, and my mouth too; I was getting used to tis'by
mind, conditions, but here I would have hung open in dismay, (Chocked, now.,1TME CheMBiNe atN fmcdeinse
And another friend who had atrangled. I just had to express obviously,) atrieams nieypi
hsad his pulled said food tended my feelings, I guess. I brought my But the chuck was removed, and 0 THERE WERE a couple of
to collect and decay in the empty right hand up, last three fisigers a roll of gauze was inserted withS novocaine ahots, and I closed free.
sockets. ' extended, thumb and forefinge.r in instructions to clamp dow'n on it osy eye. again, There were a few For dinner ftse first night I hat
I knesv even my best fritnds an "0", a well-known success sign. to stop blee'ping. twisting pressures, some grinding I two cubes worth of boullion ant
asouldu't tell ome. My eyes were still closed, and my I groaned-in relief naturally. noises, and again my mouth husng See TEETH, page 11
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