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The story of Ruth Keyser’s recent adventure at the dentist’s office is the kind of item that Ripley’s Believe It or Not prints in the Sunday papers. Or better yet, it would make a wonderful testimonial on the multiple uses of clothes pins.
Week before last, Mrs. Keyser had a tooth pulled—a common enough occurrence. But here’s the catch. She went through the ordeal without novacaine, without gas, without any pain killers at all except for a single clothespin dangling from her ear lobe.
“I have to say that the tooth was slightly loose,” Mrs. Keyser explained. She’d been wiggling it back and forth for several days before she decided it ought to come out and made an appointment with her dentist.
The dentist examined the tooth and got ready to give Mrs. Keyser a shot of novacaine. She stopped him just in time. “I’m sensitive to novacaine. I do funny things—swell up—all kinds of things,” she explained.
Previously, when she had her wisdom teeth extracted, it involved a drive from her home in Washington into Northern Virginia to a dentist who could put her to
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