tooth-filling

Updated: May 22, 2025

I have found that in the dentist's chair, that ironically luxurious seat, cushioned in satirical suggestion of impossible repose, after a certain initial period of clawing, filing, scraping, and punching, one's nerves accommodate themselves to the torment, and one takes almost an objective interest in the operation of tooth-filling; and in like manner after two or three wagon-loads of your household stuff have passed down the public street, and all your morbid associations with them have been desecrated, you begin almost to like it.

William Dean Howells - Suburban Sketches