Show hypnotism aids in tooth extraction bakersfield CALIF hypnotism long considered a good stage trick but also utilized in medicine and in curing mental ills during recent years found a new use in dentistry here when mrs violet nicola went to a medical dental clinic to have two teeth extracted it was discovered that she was allergic to all types of 0 a anesthetics nes the dentist called two doctors and a psychotherapist psycho therapist into consultation the consulting psychotherapist started talking g to the patient and within a few seconds she was in a hypnotic trance thirty minutes later mrs nicola was brought out of the trance minus her two teeth but completely unaware that they were gone although the doctors and two other witnesses told her the operation was over mrs nicola was not convinced until she looked in a mirror |