I will never forget that Dentist drills were designed by a sadist 
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The old ones on articulated arms with the black drive bands certainly were. The noise and the smoke coming out of your mouth was terrifying.
The problem is that will always be my image of the dentist and why I still break out in a sweat as I sit in the chair even though I know that the high speed drill will be nothing. “Knowing” is not the same as believing.
Even worse when I was in India in the early 70s I went with a friend to a dentist to treat his toothache. The drill was the same horrifying articulated machine but instead of being electric powered it was pedalled by the dentist. I might have been a treadle, I can’t remember.
It was the stuff of nightmares
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A kid in front of me at the dental clinic threw up and nearly choked when given gas.Apparently he had a cup of tea too soon before his appointment.
Of course I told them I had too, which I hadn’t ,but it got me off for a few weeks.