sun xiaofang: an interesting talk about tooth extraction
2024-10-06
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toothache is not a disease, it hurts terribly. there is a poem by bai juyi that says, "i lie down for three days with a headache and toothache." it can be seen that even the great poets in ancient times could not escape the torture of toothache.
when i was a child, i loved listening to cross talk. ma ji and liu baorui had a classic program called "tooth extraction", which told the story of a doctor who set up a stall on an overpass in beijing to extract teeth for people. the cross talk is ridiculous and fun, but the children take it seriously and think that tooth extraction is just like what is said in the show: either you use vise to clamp the tooth in the mouth and pull it out; or you tie the tooth with a rope, connect gunpowder to one end, and light it. he was so frightened that he pulled out the tooth without realizing it.
this is a northern dentist story, our shanghai "specialty" comedy show, and there are also similar classic shows. it is also two old gentlemen, wang shuangqing and wu shuangyi, who jointly performed "tooth extraction with a big parasol", which vividly presented the "fighting" between the greedy citizens on the beach and the ruthless dentists in the old society. the background of the show is shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s, located in the area of xiafei road where huaihai park is now. at that time, charlatans gathered together to set up stalls and sell medicines to treat diseases. some citizens who were greedy for petty gains came here to find traveling doctors to extract teeth. in the classic cross talk of the northern school, the main point of laughter is the absurdity of doctor you's tooth extraction skills, but in our shanghai comedy, the focus is on the cunningness of doctor you. a citizen from pudong, in order to save money, crossed the river to see a shandong master who had three generations of ancestors to extract his teeth. he thought that the cost was half cheaper than that in the hospital, but he did not expect that from the first payment, he had already fallen into the trap. a trap. sometimes you have to pay for materials, and sometimes you have to pay for surgery. you have to pay for the depreciation of the stool while you sit to pull it out. if it doesn't hurt, you have to pay for insurance. the cost is higher than going to the hospital. in the end, doctor you started the extraction, and his method was not as "brutal" as that of tianqiao dentist who directly used gunpowder. however, the joke was all over the place, and the result was that the wrong tooth was extracted!
comedy, cross talk, absurd humor, always make us laugh out loud, but at the same time, going to the dentist gradually became a shadow in my heart. this is not my problem alone, 9 out of 10 people are afraid of dentists. at that time, i went to the dental clinic to see the cavities. when i entered the clinic, i heard the sharp "squeak" sound when the dental drill was started, and my whole body felt sore. you know, when i was a child, i fell down hard and my knee was bleeding. i stood up and continued playing as if nothing was wrong. such a "fierce" baby instantly transformed into a little lamb when he went to the dental clinic.
my awe for dentists lasted until i was thirty. in the meantime, even if my tooth hurts, i don’t dare to see the dentist easily. finally, one year, my wisdom teeth became inflamed and i couldn’t bear it anymore, so i had to go to a dental clinic. it was truly an experience of a lifetime. before the young female doctor extracted my teeth, she asked me to lie down flat and took out a white cloth to cover my face. there was a big hole in the cloth, just to expose the teeth. i thought this piece of cloth was covering the eyes to reduce the patient's psychological burden. out of curiosity, i asked the doctor why such a piece of cloth was needed to cover the eyes. yi said with a faint smile, to prevent blood from coming out and staining the face during tooth extraction. okay! just by yi's words, my heartbeat immediately exceeded 100. as expected, the entire operation required a vise, a small hammer, and a drill, and a lot of blood came out. finally, the tooth extraction was successful, and i was in pain for a whole day after the operation.
since then, i have been a bit shy about dental problems. until last year, i had problems with several teeth one after another. i decided to find a dental clinic to repair them and do a lot of repairs. i thought that after some treatment, i would lose at least three pounds of weight, but the result was unexpected. there are many procedures in the whole process, from dental implantation to root canal treatment, mold making and finally implantation. i went to the clinic four or five times, but i really didn’t feel the pain anymore. today's instruments and surgical methods have been innovated, and great progress has been made in terms of diagnosis and treatment effects and reducing patient pain.
it turned out that i started to panic when i sat in the dentist's big chair. now i feel no psychological pressure when i see the dentist again. from the quack doctors in comedy shows and cross talk who harmed people, to today's painless tooth extraction and implantation, in less than a hundred years, medical skills have been turned upside down, which is really a blessing for us ordinary people. i hope that all kinds of embarrassing things like tooth extraction will only appear in cross talk and comedy in the future and become ancient legends. (sun xiaofang)
