RE: [ACEsthetics] Dentistry Back Then

We could only use gloves for surgery, but in restorative if you had a cut we could use finger condoms call finger cots.

David 

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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:25:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [ACEsthetics] Dentistry Back Then
From: drjackpweiss@gmail.com
To: curtis@cooltodrool.com
CC: riccoker@gmail.com; arunnayyardmd@gmail.com; rsh.dds.fagd@gmail.com; agoodman@agoodmandds.com; gmoor@windstream.net; jchdmd@msn.com; drmaclee@gmail.com; acesthetics@googlegroups.com

  When I was in school (in my best crumudgeon voice), there was no HepC. We had Hep A, B and non A non B...lol.

  The first practice I bought, from an excellent dentist, the dentist smoked throughout the office, even carrying the cigarette into the op and setting the lit cigarette on the sink. 

   before gloves, especially in winter, my knuckles would crack and bleed from all the hand washing. 

          jack

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Curtis Westersund <curtis@cooltodrool.com> wrote:

Did they even have Hep 3 back then?

All of the STD's were cured with Pen V.

We had no AIDS, never heard of Genital Herpes or other gross stuff

No one worried about getting anything. 

Many docs kept an ashtray on the instrument tray during procedures so they could have a puff mid crown prep

Curtis

On 2013-09-02, at 10:10 AM, Rick Coker wrote:

I hate the combination of wearing gloves and doing implant prosthetics-things can sure get slippery!

Rick

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On Sep 2, 2013, at 9:07 AM, ARUN NAYYAR <arunnayyardmd@gmail.com> wrote:

Memories!!!!

A few months after gloves were mandated in the Dental School, I was called by the Clinic Director because a student had reported that I had used bare hands and an excator to lift off a "locked" crown that she could not take off  .......ungloved  !!!   

Then the denture faculty was nailed for picking a denture off the table "bare handed" to show the student where to trim the flange!!! 

AND one of our students broke her wrist on the polishing wheel when her gloved hand caught the wheel.  

Then when the handpiece scare came along...  a patient called to ask IF all the students and faculty had their HIV tests 

Plus a patient purchased her own handpiece from one of the graduating students!!!

Interesting transition

Lesson learnt

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Steve Hendry <rsh.dds.fagd@gmail.com> wrote:

I was '82.   I was was of the few kids in my class who wore a mask all the time.  We could have al the finger cots we wanted,  but we took out impacted thirds molars with bare hands.  If you had a cut on your hand they would grudgingly give you gloves, but regarded you as kind of a wuss for asking for them. 

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Curtis Westersund <curtis@cooltodrool.com> wrote:

I graduates 10 years later and you could not find a pair of gloves in our Clinic. If they had them we were too low on the totem pole to get them.

I remember in Oral Surgery clinic our professor (an Oral Surgeon from Calgary) smoking cigarettes in the clinic and ash dropping from his cigarette into the patient's open mouth.

Never saw a glove in that clinic

They could not keep finger cots in stock though

Curtis

On 2013-09-02, at 9:22 AM, Ashley Goodman wrote:

I graduated in '69.  When any blood was involved, we always wore gloves.  Just never wore them for denture adjustments, and the like.

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On 9/2/2013 7:18 AM, Dr. Jack P. Weiss wrote:

   I graduated in '82. The ONLY time we wore gloves was in OS when extracting a tooth and when we did perio surgery, when we used sterile gloves. If we had a cut on a finger, we took a finger cot from the supply desk. Finger cots were like little finger condoms that covered just one finger. Only people that had beards wore masks...lol

   when we finally had to wear gloves, they were about $15/box (not case, per BOX)

         Jack

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Guy Moorman <gmoor@windstream.net> wrote:

Nobody wore gloves until 1985…remember…and then you could not buy the damned things because they could not make them fast enough.  About half had holes in them according to research back then.  Same went for handpieces.  I'd been working with four high speeds and two slow speeds. At my volume then I needed at least a dozen handpieces to keep them autoclaved in my old Omniclave.  I finally bought a high volume faster autoclave but kept using the Omniclave.  Gave the Omniclave to a vet friend when I got a Midmark 11.  I bought about 20 high speeds from low end sources and all used canister turbines.  Those things didn't last long but man would they cut when you first put them in and oiled them.  We still have some handpieces that I got for 85 bucks a piece in 86.  It was AIDS folks that invoked the terror. 

 

When I was in the hospital last week a cute young lady was drawing blood after a male almost destroyed all the veins in my arm.  She cut the finger out of the forefinger of the left glove so she could feel.  I do this all the time doing endo…thumb and forefinger.

 

Guy W. Moorman, Jr., D.D.S.

The Swamp

Douglas, GA 31533

912-384-7400

 

 

 

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WHAT IS SO FUNNY........I have seen this before and one of the women, was my office managers mother.

She said, lots of retakes.....in film

 

SO where are the gloves  :)))

Jeffrey C Hoos DMD FAGD 

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> From: gmoor@windstream.net
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> Subject: RE: [ACEsthetics] Dentistry Back Then
> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 06:35:30 -0400
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> Those are the same chairs and belt drive engines we had in clinic...about
> 20k rpms and a ton of torque. Pedo had belt engines but 40k rpms.
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> If you are a young dentist and have no idea what dentistry was like back in
> the 40's this WWII video shows exactly what it was like. I graduated from
> Baylor in 1972 and was taught basically the same material.
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> Dentistry was not a lot of fun back then at least for me.
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