Dental clinics - then

Dental clinics have come a long way since they

looked like this in my childhood. Thanks for that!

It was in a chair like this, with equipment like this,

that I started my fear of dentists. In Norway

back then, we had a dental clinic at school, and I was

near hysterical when I had to be dragged there at

least once a year.

But when I as a grownup finally understood that

I must go to the dentist at least twice a year to

prevent major problems with my teeth, by then

the drills, the possibility to get help against the pain and the

attitude of the dentists had changed so radically that

I find that for the last thirty years a visit to the dentist

is not traumatic any more.

I don't like it, but I feel the dentists I have used during

these thirty years have been very competent, had very

modern equipment and have been very considerate when

I tell them about my fear.

But seeing this old dental clinic at the local history

center in Horten, brought me straight back to such

a chair and such a fear - a long time ago.

The website for the local history center http://www.lhs.no/