Chapter Nine
Day Three – Dental and Oral Decorations
The next morning came far too soon, and again at 7:30, I found Delilah prepared and waiting for the final round of operations, still completely unconscious. This time we were in a different operating theatre; the one in which oral surgery was to be carried out, and upon entering, I found her strapped securely to the chair, her body covered by a sterile sheet, with her head held motionless in a set of wide, thinly-padded clamps. The prep nurses had already removed the tubes and teeth guards, replacing them with a speculum that kept Delilah’s jaws spread far apart.
The first portion of the operation was to jacket all of her teeth with glued-on, blunted steel caps, and then these were mechanically secured by cross-pins placed in holes
