Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-05-22
IN THE DENTAL CHAIR.
Women Show Greater Ability to En-
dure Pain Without Flinchinq.

dure Pain Without FIinehine.
Chicago Tribune: Dentists have an
excellent opportunity for observing the
varying distinctive actions of men
and women while enduring pain us
ually accompanying dental surgery,
and that they are authority for the
statement that men are natural born
towards when it comes to facing an
operation which they know win set
their nerves to jumping and cause
them much physical suffering.
woman will sit for hours and
allow a dentist to gouge and prod her
gums with any number of sharp steel
instruments that he chooses to use,
without whimpering and if the opera
ton is not completed she will come
back the next day and have the pain
full ordeal repeated. But man! Not
so with him. He may show up for the
hrst days treatment but the chances
are that on the second day his ap-
pointment will remain unkeut. He
hasn't the necessary nerve and in
clination to subject himself to another
siege OF torture, and so he gives the
dentists office wide berth.
1t is not a fact, however. that all
men are towards when facing a dental
chair; nor is it true that all women
are brave under similar cfrcum-
stances; but taken as class and
viewed under the inspecting glass of
the ID. d. S.. women show more
courage than men when called upon
to endure treatment which at the best
is anything but pleasant.
Chicago dentist mas observed the
distinctive characteristics of men and
women who occupy his chair from
day to day and has gathered some in
teresting facts. "The actions of a
man in my chair are as different from
those of woman as day is from
night" he said. ''In the first place a
woman will present herself at the ap-
pointed time, trembling perhaps, but
determined to see it through no matter
how great the pain may be. She gets
into the chair, settles back against
the head-rest and though she may
finch when the nerves are aggravated
she will not utter one word of COM
plant
"A man comes in maintaining a
clustering bravado attitude and gets
into the chair with so much apparent
resignation and determination that if
you had never seen a man in a den
lists Office before you would declare
he was a woman's superior in point
of bravery at every point But Just
wait. The minute you begin to hurt
him you hear something, and this
something depends on the religious
tendencies of the particular man. If
he is profane he swears, and if he is
not given to prof uity he uses Ian.
guage so close to violation of moral
law that it is rather hard to draw a
distinguishing line.
THE woman will go through the
first operation and when told to come
back the following day will agree to
do so. What is more, she will keer
her word. But a man will go away
ShN'SiiihS MO LCClH anu lue chances
are you won't see him again for a
week. You have to use all sorts OF
means to get him Jack. The fact of
the matter is he hasn't the courage to
undergo REPETITION of the pain to
which he has been subjected.
There is another great difference
between men and women which In
wolves personal pride. If a woman
has bad teeth she wants them treated
in the best possible way no matter
how much physical suffering Is in
volved. She will sit for a whole day
and subject herself to any sort of
treatment in order to have crooked
tooth Strengthened, or some natural
defect remedied. This. of course. is
largely a matter of pride, but a man
won't do it. He wants good work
certainly, but he wants it done in the
least painful manner. and isn't so par
ticular about his personal appearance
that he is willing to endure torture
to bring about the result. In Justice
to the men it must be said that in
cases of sudden shock they have more