"Painless Parker" wore a necklace of teeth to lure in achy victims. Courtesy of Kornberg School of Dentistry Having a tooth pulled in the early 1900s was anything but awful. You’d climb up into the ...

If you were on Pacific Avenue during World War I, you’d notice a rope stretched across the street to the second-story windows of the Neary Building’s dental clinic. A tightrope-walker would traverse ...

Parker wore this necklace to advertise his skill at extraction A pioneer of modern dentistry mixed showmanship with medical knowledge. Writer James Bartlett remembers the legacy of Painless Parker.

Fear of pain is the main reason people avoid seeing the dentist. The good news is that there is a wide array of medications and techniques -- used alone or in combination -- that can reduce or ...

We've been keeping an eye on efforts to make the dreaded dentist's drill a thing of the past for some time, and now there's more good news on the horizon for the cavity-prone (and pain-phobic).

A pioneer of modern dentistry mixed showmanship with medical knowledge. Writer James Bartlett remembers the legacy of Painless Parker. You might not look twice at the name on the gravestone in ...