When I need a cavity filled and get that lidocaine shot in the mouth, I break out in a sweat and get faint, nauseated and pale. It's purely in my head, not a medication reaction, ever since anatomy class in medical school. It's…
I will always remember my childhood dentist, Dr. Tarentino. I will especially remember his eyes, boring down into my mouth as intensely as his drill. Though my parents were smart people with advanced degrees in Theology, they…
Sometimes we emergency doctors are called upon to temporarily be dentists. Teeth get knocked out in injuries, and we have to tend to the tooth as well as the other, more doctory injuries. It makes us a little uncomfortable-…
