Fortunately for the settlers, help was as close as Wright’s Dental Office – the next step on your journey Beneath the Streets.
            If help is the right word to describe this early form of dental care, then it must be acknowledged that they performed their wonders with what, by today’s standards, would be the most primitive of technologies.  A foot-powered drill testifies to this fact and gives visitors a brief glimpse into the painful nature of early dental treatment.  A cabinet next to the drill houses many of the small tools, picks and mirrors that are common even today in a dentist's office.  What is uncommon in the cabinet are the teeth that the guide explains were used as filling material or to manufacture dentures.
            According to your guide, the teeth of visitors to the next exhibit on your journey beneath Havre’s streets might well have been in better condition than you’d expect.