Dental chairs in the 60s, 70s, 80s

Are there others, who finds the dental offices from earlier days fascinating?

I really love the big chair from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Especially, I love to see women lying helpless in that chairs, the footrest highly raised - a position, where you are completely delivered to the denist.

https://youtu.be/iVJhauUPQWI?t=3m57s

https://youtu.be/DnN6LbSXCFs?t=3m59s

A great practice these days: the assistant brings the chair in position, so the patient will see the dentist in the lying position. These days there were no discussion of the treatment with the dentist, the patient had to sit still and obey.

Hi there. I do too! I feel like they were much more intimidating and scary. I love picturing men or women sitting or lying on the chairs while the dentist (probably not wearing gloves) works endlessly on them.

The old chairs make me feel like the procedures were a lot more painful than now and in the new modern offices, which is a turn on for me.

I really like the older ones where the patient sits more upright and the dentist performs their work while standing. There's just something really intimidating about them.

https://goo.gl/images/rhTKb5

Also really like how there used to be those big things with all the tools and a sink the room too:

https://goo.gl/images/Rn6qiq

I really like the older ones where the patient sits more upright and the dentist performs their work while standing. There's just something really intimidating about them.

https://goo.gl/images/rhTKb5

Also really like how there used to be those big things with all the tools and a sink the room too:

https://goo.gl/images/Rn6qiq

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I really enjoy it when you find those offices where everything is a blast from the past. I had a dentist briefly years ago that was working out of an office where all the equipment (and decor) was from the 70's. Everything was functional so she saw no need to replace it. There only exception was the handpieces, she had the loudest air turbines. Her operatory was the furthest back in the office from the waiting room and you could hear her drills going from anywhere. The only reason I left her was because she dropped my insurance.

Especially agree.

The vintage chairs evoke quite a reaction. I love anything from 1900-1970s but the old 1800s and beyond look quite interesting.

The idea of being laid back and the work just starting as the doctor comes in, possibly already have a device thats cranking the mouth open. In my fantasies there would certainly be restraints.

Sorry, but I’m more of a fan of the modern dental office, but that’s what I’ve experienced up to this point.

Absolutely, I have a fantasy of being a dentist's wife, in even earlier years (maybe 1930s or 40s) where he would drill me in a sitting position with a slow drill for hours and then place large amalgam fillings in my molars. Of course, no anesthetic, and me sitting still, with no questioning of his authority.

The older style, 40s and 50s especially are definitely more intimidating, but lose some of the clinical, sterile feel that more modern ones have IMO.

Yes, very much love the more intimidating old styles of chairs and equipment.

I'd be very interested to be seated in one of the final versions of those chairs with the "tower" next to it which held the arm for the light, the lines for drills, the pulley and the sink. I think that they were made by Ritter into possibly even the very early 1970s - that would be the ideal kind of era for me. Otherwise I have memories of some 1980s chairs and they were very sterile, metal and basic in that era which was appealing.

I find this Densply CL-1 from the 1970's very appealing. Looks a lot like a lounge chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ZzyGgblAk

https://www.incisaledgemagazine.com/mag/article/mid-mod-classic/

My favorite dental chairs were at my orthodontist’s office. They really weren’t chairs in the strictest sense. Instead, they were made of leather and looked similar to a narrow, contoured, horizontal cot where your body comfortably lay within. He had about a half dozen of them all lined up in a large treatment room as multiple patients often would be having their braces installed, tweaked, etc., right next to you. The doctor and an assistant sat on rolling chairs on either side as they adjusted your wires, springs and other torture devices in your propped open mouth. These procedures often took considerable time to complete and having a nice, comfy place to get relaxed while they worked in your mouth made the experience much more tolerable!

I find dental chairs of the 70’s most interesting because they were the first chairs that laid the patient completely flat. The 70’s marked the introduction of ‘sit down’ dentistry where the Doctor and the assistant were seated at the head of the patient. The patient fully reclined with their feet at the same level as their head.

I like the vulnerability laying down, I know older chairs didn't really do this, so give me more modern anyday