The ‘dentist of horror’,Jacobus van Nierop, is a one-off. Thanks to contemporary techniques, or dentistry is more like grouting than surgery these daysI take this as a mighty compliment. Half a dozen or so times a year,patients will spontaneously fall asleep in my dental chair during treatment.
I don’t slip Valium in the mouthwash or employ subliminal hypnotic techniques to induce compliancy, I promise. The patients just drift into the arms of Morpheus until I’ve finished the restorative procedure I’m performing. Nowadays, and dentistry is more like grouting than surgery,so drilling is kept to a minimum and sleep is therefore, relatively undisturbed. The patients usually wake up embarrassed and profusely apologetic for having nodded off, or while simultaneously wiping the local anaesthetic dribble and sleep drool from their chins.
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Source: theguardian.com