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  • Advert for Mr Smaedley's Dental Surgery
  • 19th century dental surgery
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Ernest Board.
  • The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.
  • Advert for Mr Smedley's Dental Surgery offering modern dentistry and reduced fees to servants and others of limited means. Picture of a smiling woman with ornate hairdo.
  • Five demons: one performs dental surgery on another, while another with a swollen mouth waits for attention. Coloured etching.
  • The guinea jaw : my personal appearance before making my remarks : a step in dental surgery... / Lloyd & Son.
  • A nervous elderly lady in a dental surgery clutching her bag and looking suspiciously at the dentist. Pen drawing by S. Wood.
  • A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.
  • A military dental surgery where soldiers have their teeth extracted extremely quickly, whilst others are waiting for their operations. Pen drawing by H. Bury.
  • Nepal; street of dentists, Kathmandu 1986. In 1982, there were 17 government-trained dental surgeons in Nepal, some of whom practised in this street. For those too fearful or who could not afford to visit one of these surgeries, a nearby shrine was dedicated to Vaisha Dev, the god of toothache. Surrounding the god was a plank of wood into which thousands of nails had been driven. Planting a nail was believed to get rid of toothache by pinning down all evil spirits and influences.
  • Promotrional photograph: British Oxygen Company, c. 1955
  • Dental bur
  • Journal of the British Dental Association.
  • Samuel Cartwright. Chalk drawing, 1849, attributed to T. Landseer.
  • World War One: a Royal Naval hospital ship: the dental surgeon's door. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Boer War: a dentist outside his hut at a military hospital. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Hall-Edwards.
  • A town gentleman visiting a village dentist and enquiring if he uses gas, the dentist retorts he does but prefers daylight. Process print after G. Du Maurier, 1895.
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).
  • Dental memoranda / collected by T. Purland (1844).