36 Days Until Trek - Dental Emergencies on the Trail
What if you experience a medical emergency on the trail? We will have a medical team that will take care of you. Of course, most of us will go through Trek with no problem at all. Still, it is comforting to know that we will have medical professionals with us just in case they are needed. And if you have a tooth ache while on Trek, I doubt you'll have your tooth extracted.
Dental Emergencies
“Luke Johnson, traveling with the vanguard company in 1847,
pulled teeth. William Clayton wrote on April 20, soon after they got on the
trail: ‘After Brother Luke Johnson had got through distributing fish, I … asked
him to draw my tooth. He willingly agreed. And getting his instruments, I set
down in a chair, he lanced the gum, and took his nippers and jerked it out. The
whole operation did not take more than one minute. He only got half the
original tooth, the balance being left in the jaw. After this my head and face
pained me much more than before.’ It was two days of severe pain before Clayton
could stand to eat much.”

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