Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 08, 2018

Ah! I got it!

I’ll go along with her but will change the year to 1945. Gigantic changes since then in methods, devices, and the number pf dentists available.

There’ve been many things improved upon in dentistry since I was a wee nipper.

1965 was brutal, especially when the dentist was trained in 1925.

Where are you from. My dentist was great in ’65.

Remember the little string with a knot in it, that went around the small pulleys to make the drill spin agonizingly slow? Might as well have used a hand auger….

One of my favorite cartoons of yesteryear featured, in Panel 2, a dad sitting in the living room holding a newspaper but with eyes as big as saucers. In Panel 1 he’d been reading the paper while a word balloon appeared from around the door into the next room: “Let’s play Civil War doctor”.

from the number of commercials featuring people from that era for corrective dental I would say almost everywhere

Got her out of school, she got gassed and doesn’t remember, and the dentist threw in a new sparkle-color toothbrush – winner!

Whenever I go to the dentist, I’m told that the problem (whatever it is) was either caused, or made difficult to fix, on account of dental work done many decades ago. “They don’t do that anymore,” is always the sad diagnosis.

I was still going to my first dentist in 1965. He was the one later immortalized in “Little Shop of Horrors”

I had a dental appointment at nineteen fifty, but the dentist didn’t arrive until nearly twenty fifteen…

Has a point! In 1965 the Novocaine shot felt like it went all the way to your soul!