, 1885-11-03
THE DENTIST At THE SEASIDE.

- Gee, - III. Keller o. PERSON.. wis
lose ia~ir Trelh L. tile surf
Nrw i-ies sun
~ made a good deal o. money this
ssason.' said au uptown dentist.
through a chance remark drop ed by
nv barber when was getting shaved
one morning at my regular place on
Broadway. noticed there was some
thing unusual about the appearance of
The barber, aud when | mentioned it 10
him he told mo he had been down to
Atlantic City for n few days with his
wife and sister-in-law, and had sui
fered "A disastrous loss. All of his up
per teeth were false, aud 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 he
WAS obliged to content himself with the
soup, he did not reap any pronounced
enjoyment from his trip.
~ thought It over while he was shaw
ing me, and early in July | established
branch Offices at Coney island and Rock
away beach. business is always light
in the summe with me, so divided
my 0 Lees between two young men who
assist me in town. Scarcely n 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 n nan out in
some sort Of u way, so 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 children )
teeth pulled on Sunday. suppose You
have noticed the pleasure which the or
binary excursionist takes in having n
little sorrow with his enjoyment II
became quito the fashion at Rockawhy
to have the children's teeth pulled on
Sunday. The young ones were so much
interested in the sand or the ocean that
they forgot the trouble as soon rs tho
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 o. artificial teeth. There
is a system in wide use now by which n
man may IhAt lnO VI llitt ~ Ills HUN
teeth Knocked ont and have new ones
put in without even his own wife being
any the wiser. There Is no longer any
dilnculty IN fixing a single tooth in n
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 Il mans
head.
According to the present system we
can put as goo a tooth in a mans head
as any of the natural ones. If you
have IA big tooth that il decayed and
useless We saw it off below the decayed
part and riyet a plate upon this surface
An artificial tooth with a gold plate
similar TO the one already fixed upon
the root is then fastened upon it by
means o. II powerful screw, and it lasts
AS long as tho man does. No one is
able to discover that it is a falsItooth,
and the patient may chew molasses
candy and bite the hardest of hard
tack with impunity. When two or three
teeth in a row are missing we make n
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 {
fist or club can dislodge them