Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-12-12
THE DENTIST AT THE SEASIDE.
He Goes to tho Relief of Persons VIA
Lose Their Teeth In the Surf.
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Lose Their Teeth In the Surf.
New York SUM-
Il made a good deal of money this
season." said an uptown dentist.
through a chance remark dropped by
my barber when | was getting shaved
n morning at nv regular place on
Broadway. / noticed there was some
thing unusual about the appearance Of
the barber, and when ! mentioned ii 10
him he told me he had been down 10
Atlantic City for a few days with his
wife aud sister-in-law, and had suf-
fered a disastrous loss. All of his up.
per teeth were false, and they were
set in a single plate, and while the fair
and festive barber was plunging through
the briny the plate slipped out, and left
him toothless. He no longer dared to
smile, and as the soup at watering place
hotels was VIGOROUSLY off, and as be
was obliged to content himself with the
soup, he did not reap any pronounced
enjoyment from his trip.
81 thought it over while he was shay
ing me, and early in July | established
branch Offices at Coney island and Rock.
away beach. Business is always light
in the summer with me, so | divided
my Offices between two young men who
assist me in town. Scarcely q day
passed that my two establishments
didn't turn in money. / kept various
sets of teeth at both places, and we
were always able to rig a man out in
ONE sort of q way, 20 that he would
look ~presentable in case his teeth had
been washed away by the waves. An
other source OF income was contributed
by poor people who had their childrens
teeth pulled on Sunday. suppose you
have noticed the pleasure which the or.
binary excursionist takes in having "a
little sorrow with his enjoyment. IL
became quite the fashion at Rockaway
to have the children's teeth pulled on
Sunday. The young me were so much
interested in the sand or the ocean that
they forgot the trouble as soon as the
tooth was drawn, and the parents had
but little trouble in soothing their lam
entations.
by the way, wonderful strides have
been taken in the art of dentistry within
the past year or two, and particularly
in the matter of artificial teeth. There
Is q system in wide use now by which a
mar may have two or three of his front
teeth knocked ont and have new ones
put in without sven his own wife being
any the wiser. There is no longer any
difficulty in fixing a single tooth in a
mans head. This was for many years
a delicate and unsatisfactory operation.
The tooth became wabbly after a short
usage and never felt secure in a mans
head.
According to the present system we
can put az cool a tooth in a mans head
ns any of the natural ones. III YOU
have a big tooth that II decayed and
useless we saw it OF below the decayed
part and rivet a plate upon this surface.
An artificial tooth with q gold plate
similar to the one already fixed upon
the root is then fastened upon It by
means o. a powerful screw, and il lasts
as long rs the man docs. 10 one Il
able to discover that it is a false tooth,
and the patient may chew molasses
candy and bite the hardest Of hard
lack with impunity. v hen two or three
teeth in a row are missing we make 2
gold bridge from one good tooth to an
other good tooth, rivet it fast, and set
false teeth into the bridge, so that they
look exactly similar to the lost ones.
Nothing short Of a heavy blow with a
list or club can dislodge them"