Here’s one of many interesting articles I found from Modern Mechanix, this dental device almost looks like a torture device~ Not surprised so many people still fear going to the dentist

Aren’t we all glad that Dental technology has advanced so far? Nowadays we just fill our mouths up with putty and take an impression of our teeth, yaY! Although there’s still downsides to having impression material in your mouth, two points.

• It has the potential to be messy! messy! messy! (especially when the patient upchucks in the chair )
• Gaggers worst nightmare! They might even prefer to use this monstrous dental device instead O_o

Source: Popular Science
Issue: Jun, 1939

Device Takes Measure of the Teeth

WITH the aid of the “gnathograph,” an instrument as mouth-filling as its name, a dentist’s patients may now be assured of a perfect fit for artificial teeth.

Fitted to the jaws as shown above, the new device registers the arrangement of the teeth and the direction of the “bite,” to guide the dentist in straightening teeth or fitting inlays, crowns, bridges, and plates.

Its inventor, Dr. Beverly B. McCollum of Los Angeles, Calif., demonstrates in the picture at the right [image edited] how the instrument is then mounted for use in tooling a plate to just the right shape to give the most comfortable fit in the mouth.