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Dentists could dismiss this problem if all their patients were as stoical as one of Dr. Arrigo Piperno's. Dr. Piperno, who plays the violin and has four clinics in Rome, was graduated from Chicago Dental College 25 years ago. Last week, trim and handsome, his iron-gray mustache carefully waxed, he was back in Chicago to tell old & new friends about his No. 1 patient for the past eight years, Benito Mussolini...
Last week in Chicago 15,000 dentists, including 770 foreigners and 450 women, assembled for the Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, planned in connection with the Fair, and the annual convention of the American Dental Association. Among the 176 subjects which engrossed them was this problem of "Why do people fear the dentist?" Any layman who had ever had a molar nerve rasped by a dentist's drill could have given them a ready answer...
...antipathy often springs from the child's first visit to the dentist. To avoid this he recommended that all patients under five years of age be given a general anesthetic. He also urged that adults whose fears cannot otherwise be quieted be put to sleep before undergoing a dental operation...
...Years of dental history were sketched colorfully by Yale's Physiologist Howard Wilcox Haggard, able popularizer. The first dentists were mountebanks who probably snatched purses on the side. All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...
Preventive Dentistry, beginning in childhood, was the convention's keynote. Chief keynoter was Dr. Arthur Davenport Black, whitehaired & mustached dean of Northwestern University's Dental School, president of the Centennial Congress. In Chicago's Lincoln Park stands a statue of his father, Dr. Greene Vardiman Black, called the "Father of American Dentistry." At the last Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, held during the Fair of 1893, the elder Black presented dentists with their first nomenclature...