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Dentistry: An Oral History of Disruption

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

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Introduction

Horace wells was a dentist who cared about minimizing the pain he inflicted upon his patients. He discovered anaesthesia after witnessing a demonstration of nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas. It would take another 20 years before medical and dental establishments would officially cognize his role in the discovery of anaesthesia.

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