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Dr. Josiah Foster Flagg, considered to be America's first native-born, full-time dentist, added a headrest and an extended armrest to a Windsor chair to create the first dental chair in 1790. Before Dr. Flagg's invention, patients either had to sit on the floor and clutch onto the dentist's leg for support, or sit stoically in an ordinary chair while the dentist operated.

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Dr. Horace Wells was a dentist in Hartford, Connecticut, when he stumbled upon the use of nitrous oxide - "laughing gas" - as medicine's first anesthetic in 1844. After Dr. Wells saw a public demonstration of the gas, which was featured for people's amusement at a traveling show, he became convinced of its medical possibilities. Shortly afterwards, Dr. Wells had himself put under and asked a colleague to extract one of his molars. When he awakened, Dr. Wells said, "I didn't feel it so much as the prick of a pin. A new era in tooth-pulling has arrived!"

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The Talmud, the collection of ancient rabbinical writings that constitutes the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism, notes that sour fruit juice is supposed to be good for a toothache. Another recommendation involved placing a garlic clove ground with oil and salt on the thumbnail, with a rim of dough around it.

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