Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1885-10-22
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DoctorIng Persons who Lose Their Teeti
In the Ocean Surf

DoctorIng Persons who Lose Their Teeth
IN the Ocean Surf
"I made a good deal Of money this
season." said an uptown dentist,
Through chance remark dropped by
my 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. and when ] mentioned 1t
TO him he told me he had been down 70
Atlantic City for n few days with his
wife and slster-in-law, and had suffered
a disastrous loss. All OF his upper
teeth were false, and they were set in a
single plate, and while the fair aud
festive barber was plunging through
the briny the plate slipped out, and
left him teethless. He no longer dared
TO smile, and as the soup at watering
place hotels was notoriously of, and
as ho was obliged TO content himself
with tho soup, he did not reap any pro-
nounced enjoyment from his trip.
II thought II over while he was shaw
ing me. and early in July established
four branch Offices at Coney Island and
Rockaway Beach. Business Is always
light In the summer with me, so | di-
vided my offices between two young
men who assist me in town. | paid
Them six dollars a week, so my ex-
?enscs were not particularly heavy. It
Is easy enough to advertise so as TO
reach people with false teeth, for every
pan who wears artificial molars is
s-te TO see and remember any sign
concerning teeth. You see, men are
sensitive that way; likewise women.
One would think that the last thing
any man would lose in the course OF
his daily existence would be his false
teeth, but that is decidedly not the
case. Scarcely day passed that my
two establishments didn't turn in
money. l kept various sets OF teeth at
both places, and we were always able
TO rig man out in some sort OF way,
so that he would look presentable
in case his teeth had been washed
away by the waves. Another source
Of income was contributed by
poor people who had their children's
teeth pulled on Sunday. / suppose
you have noticed the pleasure which
the ordinary excursiOnlst takes in hay-
ing little sorrow with his enjoyment.
1t became quite a fashion at Rockaway
TO have the children's teeth pulled on
Sunday. The young ones woso 60
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 sooth-
ing their lamentations.
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 a system in wide use now by which
man may have two or three Of his front
teeth Knocked out and have new ones
put In without even his own wife being
any the wiser. There Is no longer any
difficulty in fixing 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 a mans
head. According to the present sys-
mans head as any Of the natural ones.
II you have a big tooth that Is decayed
and useless we saw it of below the de
cayed part and rivet a plate upon this
surface. An artificial tooth with a
gold plate similar to the one already
liked upon the root is then fastened
upon it by means of a powerful screw.
and it lasts as long as the man does.
No one is able TO discover that IL is a
false tooth, and the patient may chew
molasses candy and bite the hardest Of
hardtack with impunity. When two
or three teeth in row are missing we
make a gold bridge from one good
tooth to another good tooth, rivet II
fast. and set false teeth into the bridge,
so that they look exactly similar to the
lost ones. Nothing short Of heavy
blow with a fist or club can dlslodge
them. ~. Y. Sun.