During the infamous North Hollywood Shootout, a couple of heavily-armed robbers wearing full kevlar shot up a bank and with the police officers trying to take a hold of the situation, one wounded officer ended up taking refuge in a dentist's office. All the dentist could dowas stop the bleeding as best he could and offer painkillers, but this did end up saving the officer's life.
throughout the Second World War, U.S. Army dentists assigned to combat units frequently stood in for surgeons at battalion aid stations. Benjamin Soloman would receive a posthumous Medal of Honor.
Today, on top of their dental practice, a military dentist is trained to perform triage during mass causality incidents, in order to free up the other medical staff.