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  • A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
  • Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.
  • A German military dentist pulls a tooth from an agonised soldier. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1892.
  • A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • A dentist extracting a tooth from a fashionable female patient who is surrounded by young men. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • A precocious child telling a dentist exactly what is wrong with her teeth. Process print after L. Baumer, 1936.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • A dentist examining the teeth of a nervous patient, with extractor hidden behind his back. Color process print after A.R.
  • A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.
  • An African dentist performing an operation on a patient that he is restraining with a wooden stick. Wood engraving by MD.
  • Dental extraction: a dentist prepares to use a metal implement to extract the tooth of a grinning man. Photograph, ca. 1921.
  • A golf-obssessed dentist examining a patient's mouth and using golfing terminology to describe his problems. Reproduction of drawing after F. Buchanan.
  • A nervous elderly lady in a dental surgery clutching her bag and looking suspiciously at the dentist. Pen drawing by S. Wood.
  • A dentist giving John Bull a penny after extracting a tooth; representing the effects of income tax on Great Britain. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • A dentist examining a patients teeth and informing him they are all in exceedingly bad condition. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1882.
  • A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1877.
  • A dentist strapped into his own chair being terrorized by a patient holding a buzzing drill. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • A dentist telling his patient in the middle of an operation that he has nothing to fear from revolutions as dentists are always spared. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Raven-Hill, 1924.
  • An ex-soldier entering a dentist's surgery with his gas mask on - for his operation with gas. Line block after C. Graves, 1934.
  • A mother and her five delighted children turned away from their dentist's at Easter because he has toothache. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1874.
  • A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.
  • A sailor running away from the ships dentist who is attempting to pull out one of his teeth. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • A dentist asks an old patient how long his tooth has been hurting him, the patient replies twenty years. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1931.
  • A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
  • A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
  • A dentist being restrained in a chair, and terrified by a patient who is attempting to get his own back.Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1925.
  • Dental clinic, U.S.A.: dental hygienists examine two boys seated in wooden dentist chairs; the room is decorated with dental hygiene awareness posters. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • A dentist asking a nervous patient would she like gas, she retorts no she doesn't want him poking around in the dark. Process print after T. Sarg.
  • A dentist asking a nervous patient would she like gas, she retorts no she doesn't want him poking around in the dark. Process print after T. Sarg.