Show dental cliental drug druff makes patients see double puts end to choking sensation of gas london A jab in the arm instead of the choking sensation of gas Is a new method of putting you to sleep in the dentists chair the new drug Is ca called lied evlian um and it has been in use for so some m e months not only for dental work but for more serious operations you sit in the chair the anest anesthetist bet puts a strap around your upper arm just as ld in taking a blood pressure A vein expands a little under the pressure you feel a short jab of the needle in a sec second ond things become hazy you feel delightfully tired dred then you sleep there Is none of that swelling bursting choking feeling that gas gives some people you do not suspect the surgeon and the doctor of trying to suffocate you in fact you do not suspect anything you do not even dream as you do under gas meanwhile your teeth are being extracted tr then you come round slightly intoxicated you see things double you are not safe on your feet and this Is the disadvantage of evigan unlike gas you cannot go back to work after it you must rest and sleep but the evlyan method Is excellent for people who ha have ve had gas once and fear it it 1 almost everybody can have it it if the dentist Is given warning that it Is wanted the exceptions are people who ho have liver trouble or whose veins are too thin to take an injection evlyan however Is more expensive expense ve than gas it ts Is a german discovery some dental experts are against using it on the grounds that not sufficient Is known about the drug but it Is expected that when sufficient data are aval available lable its use in dental and ather operations will be more common |