In 1863, Washington Avenue dentists The Brockways, the oldest dentists in the city of Albany, pointed out their large experience and their extensive practice, and even gave their price list for whole sets of teeth. Painlessness, they didn’t mention. “Plugging” sounds a lot more painful than “filling.”
(By one calculation, $15 in 1863 would be about $277 today. Try to get even rubber-based false teeth for that today.)
Their location on Washington Avenue is now either part of Lafayette Park or the State Education Building.