this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
333 points (99.4% liked)

Science Memes

11068 readers
2800 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
333
Dentist the Menace (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Did the concept of "arracheur de dent" didn't exist in North America?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I love how street dentist is a blue link.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

In 1892, a Canadian dentist called Edgar Parker

born Edgar R.R. Parker, 22 March 1872

DUDE WAS ONLY 20 WHEN HE STARTED THIS!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

To be fair, he didn’t exactly have to go to dental school or anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Listen, if all you're doing is extractions all you need is a spike, a hammer, some pilers, some elbow grease and a strong stomach.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

When the life expectancy is only 40 you gotta get a move on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

"Hurry up, I got a hot date with early death!" - Person getting tooth extracted.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painless_Parker

He legally changed his first name to "Painless" when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.[1][2] When business thrived, he hired assistants and established a chain dentistry business.[2] In the end, Parker ran 28 West Coast dental offices, employing over 70 dentists, and grossing $3 million per year.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's also where the concept of a "barbershop quartet" came from. Dentists would have the aforementioned quartet singing loudly outside of their shop to drown out the screaming of patients inside.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

One might ask, "why the barber"? Well, they had the sharpest blades in town which made them the defacto surgeon, and before anesthesia, amputations involved at least as much screaming as pulling teeth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes ago

lol right, I totally forgot to explain that barbers often did surgery and dentistry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In those days, asking your barber to "take a little off the top" ended in either circumcision or lobotomy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Either way, hopefully they got a sweet coin as a souvenir.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

At least? I would have thought it was the other wag around, sawing off a leg off hurts at least as much as pulling a tooth?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

I suppose it depends on how drunk your barber/dentist/surgeon/bartender got you beforehand... and how drunk they got themselves.