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Appreciating the Absence of Pain

May 19, 2012 By Dr. Susan O'Grady

You don’t appreciate not having a toothache until you have a toothache.  Sitting in the endodontist’s chair last week, I was asked if my tooth ached.  I paused for a long moment, and then replied, “ache is a very vague term”.  We both laughed.  Pain is difficult to measure.  Equally difficult to measure is joy– […]

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