“Chair Dentals”: Outpatient Dental Anaesthesia in the UK

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doi:10.1055/s-2002-34525

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“Chair Dentals”: Outpatient Dental Anaesthesia in the UK

N.N. · AINS · 2002 · Heft 1 · S. 637 bis 640

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2002

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AINS

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Heft 1 / 2002

Jahrgang 37

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637 bis 640

Erschienen: 2023-03-31 12:10:23

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1439-1074

DOI

10.1055/s-2002-34525

Zusammenfassung

The severity of the pain of acute toothache is matched only by the simplicity of its cure. Swift dental extraction provides almost immediate relief, and so it is not surprising that it is for this procedure that the earliest recorded general anaesthetics were given. In Rochester, New York State in 1842 a Dr Elijah Pope used ether to anaesthetise a Miss Hobbs for dental extraction, and in 1846, in London, a Dr Francis Boott used the same technique in the first general anaesthetic authenticated in England. Precise details of these anaesthetic and surgical techniques are not known, but it is likely that anaesthesia…