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by Rex_tulips - 30/07/25 07:59 PM
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Joined: May 2012
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Has a lot to Say!
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My dentist looks so young...... He was telling me that many people of my age (67) have issues with visits to the dentist. As he said, dentistry in the 1950s and early 1960s was "barbaric", with any small blemish in a tooth being drilled and filled. I certainly have memories of belt driven drills.  I also have memories.... of gas anaesthezia, string driven spinning drill wheels, spinning head, spitting blood and aftershock. Enough lead to sink my model yacht and the price paid for anniseed balls. 
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Learner Plates Off!
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Just for the golden oldies on the forum I thought I would post this picture of my string arm dental engine (it is a laboratory hand piece btw, rather than clinical, with a TC cutter).  It was used on a very good patient this afternoon, cutting notches to clear screw ferrules on a piece of stainless steel trim for Thumper. The stainless didn’t feel a thing.....  Now to stop the door drafts.... Tim
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Formerly known as Aldermog Member of the Inner Circle
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Formerly known as Aldermog Member of the Inner Circle
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What a brilliant use for a classic drill...!!
SWMBO remembers, as a child, going to the dentist in N Ireland and the drill being treadle operated, rather like an old sewing machine!
Your comments on modern dentistry are well made... I have a fair amount of amalgam in my back teeth, but bit by bit it is being replaced with a UV Cured material.
One tooth split, the "wedge effect" of the filling and I had a crown fitted.
At least at 65 I have all my teeth, which compared to my parents generation, is impressive.
My daughter, (31) has never had a filling, but has had some repair work, damage caused by a cycling accident...!
Peter,
66, 2016 Porsche Boxster S
No longer driving Tarka, the 2014 Plus 8...
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Thank you Peter. Just as a point of correction, all light cured dental filling materials and adhesives use blue (470nm wavelength) light to polymerise the material. UV was only used for a short time in the 70’s - 80’s and is obviously unsafe.
Tim
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Talk Morgan Sage
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Talk Morgan Sage
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I have a huge respect for dentists, despite being one of those who, at the tender age of thirteen, had thirteen extractions for some obscure reason. Proper gas job, it scared me rigid for years after.
Nowadays, thanks to a couple of really professional dentists, I am back on track and enjoy good oral hygiene with regular attention from both dentists and hygienists.
In fact, a local dentist (a Mr Berrill I think..) owned a red Morgan or two for at least twenty years that I know of..!
But I'd still like to see what they do rather than stare at that ruddy fluorescent light on the ceiling..!!
Steve
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Close your eyes. That's what I do..........
DaveW
'05 Red Roadster S1
'16 Yellow (Not the only) Narrow AR GDI Plus 4
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