Funny Dentist Office Antique Dentistry ポスター

In the 17th and 18th Centuries, the blacksmith’s forge was the recognized dental office and teeth which caused pain were regularly extracted by the village smithy. In this scene, a blacksmith, working in his forge, improvises dentistry using huge forceps to extract a patient’s tooth while a woman watches. The theme of such tooth extractions was a popular theme of artists of the period. Up until the 1860s, Dentistry was largely unregulated.