The evening world., 1889-03-20
NOW IT Is A TOOTH TRUST.
THE DENTISTS UNION WARNING WITH
THE TOOTH GROWERS.

The Latter Have Formed n Syndicate TO
Buy All Dental Inventions-They Pro-
pose to Levy n Royalty on All Patents
in Usc-The Dentists VIII Fight the
Trust In the Courts.
Nearly 10000 gentlemen in the United
States fill in their time pulling teeth. Natural
teeth are so aggravatinRly common, from a
professional point of view. that the dentists
have a hard struggle TO get along, but they
manage 10 pull through. They may be said
to be very industrious gentlemen. for it is
certainly hard work to pull a double tooth.
Every one will recall that these excellent
gentlemen have a national trade union, THE
Dentists Protective Association Of the
United States" which is doing much for the
advancement of artificial teeth.
They are being thwarted and harassed by
an - International Tooth Crown Company"
and the feeling between the " tooth extrac-
tors" and the - tooth GROWERS" is bitter
and intense.
1t may be we'll to explain what a tooth
crown company is. II is a company which
takes a contract to build a fragment of arti-
fetal tooth on a remnant of natural tooth.
1t CRAFTS aluminium on bone. 1t produces q
tooth which is neither natural nor artificial.
but compassionate an immigrant and half
an old settler.
Where a man once had q tooth and now
has n snag, the Company 20 to work with q
saw, chisel and mallet, and build this pain
white, shining tooth.
Now, the singular thing about it is, that
the members of the Tooth Crown Company
are not dentists at all, but simply spectators
in teeth. 1t is said that once they were stock
hnIHnrG in a 1antnl rrrloantNn 49, xnn1.
ing plates " for teeth, pretty much the
same way that cheap printing @ houses make
- plates " for country newspapers.
1t is claimed that they have organized a
g~estion of the country. They buy up, it is
said, every new invention IN the country in
respect to teeth and farm it out to the dem
fists.
The Western dentists have a Wild Western
respect for their rights. and they met a few
months ago in Chicago and founded the great
association whose ranks are now filled with
almost all the members of their important
and useful profession.
The great Association now proposes to take
the Tooth Trust into court and put it on the
witness stand and ask it if its patents are
valid. Many of these alleged patents are
supposed to be the inventions of dentists who
had no mercenary motive and gave their dis
c~overies 10 the professional brethren for the
benefit of their art and of the public.
In a circular which was recently distrib-
uted among the members of the Association,
attention was called to the fact that many of
the patents claimed by. the Syndicate were
"chestnuts" 80 to speak, and that many a
gray-halred practitioner who had been using
a certain kind of machine or instrument for
years would now be compelled to pay a roy
atty for its use to the monopolizing tooth
crowners."
The tooth syndicate are said to have pooled
a million dollars and II gang of lawyers for
fighting the respectable dentists of the coun-
try. The latter do not promise 10 pull the
teeth of the tooth syndicate without pain.
The tooth of time will not soon efface the
enmity which the dentists feel towards the
Tooth Crown Company referred to.