the essay: Open wide ... say arrgghh! Martin Amis is not alone. Literary history is full of examples of great writers brought low by the misery of dodgy dentistry. Here, Christopher Hawtree uncovers some gruesome extractions; Lorenzo Da Ponte's dentist administered a mouthwash of nitric acid, which made all his teeth fall out

The Independent - London | April 22, 2000| | Copyright

t is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist." If Oscar Wilde was right, as he probably was, then to perpetrate an essay upon the subject is to be decidedly non-U - as one is reminded by another pillar of 19th-century society, Gladstone. When travelling to London by train, he fell into conversation with an interesting fellow and so enjoyed their discussion that he invited him to visit. When the fellow looked for a card to hand the Prime Minister, he found that he had no private ones upon him, only those that advertised his business as a dentist: a fact so horrible that ...

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