I was talking to my old Dentist some time back and telling him that as a kid in the 1940s-1950s going to the dentist who at that time had those old belt driven grinders terrified me. i would beg my parents to just have teeth pulled instead of being ground on or delay those visits. It wasn't until I enlisted in the Navy in the 1950's that I was worked on with the new HIGH speed grinders that I survived. must be many dental chairs with finger grip marks in the arm rests. He told me when he was in dental school and used those old belt driven grinders that he had this old cranky hard ass professor/teacher who tried to get close looking over his shoulder, was a real nuisance. He said one day he got so close that his Toupee got caught by the belt of the grinder and snatched off the professor's head! For those of you who never had to be worked on by those things, YOU ARE LUCKY!

I was talking to my old Dentist some time back and telling him that as a kid in the 1940s-1950s going to the dentist who at that time had those old belt driven grinders terrified me. i would beg my parents to just have teeth pulled instead of being ground on or delay those visits. It wasn't until I enlisted in the Navy in the 1950's that I was worked on with the new HIGH speed grinders that I survived. must be many dental chairs with finger grip marks in the arm rests. He told me when he was in dental school and used those old belt driven grinders that he had this old cranky hard ass professor/teacher who tried to get close looking over his shoulder, was a real nuisance. He said one day he got so close that his Toupee got caught by the belt of the grinder and snatched off the professor's head! For those of you who never had to be worked on by those things, YOU ARE LUCKY!