I wonder which is more painful? What you had, or what I had in Eastern Europe, which is the same old drill, but no anesthesia.
Incidentally, living in the west has totally pussyfied me. No offense meant to my (now) fellow westerners.
Incidentally, living in the west has totally pussyfied me. No offense meant to my (now) fellow westerners.
"An Egyptian lower jaw, dated by experts from 2900 to 2750 BC, demonstrates two holes drilled through the bone, presumably to drain an abscessed tooth."
Other than that, as best I understand back in the day people simply had to live with it.
I'm not sure which choice is worse, but I'd certainly rather you get me drunk, knock me out and drill my tooth, than either of those.
An untreated cavity often causes infection that spreads to the jaw and from there to the rest of the head. This is usually lethal.
Before dentists, teeth that developed cavities were usually removed.