New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08

discoveries In medicine. SO the same people
have the best dental service To them, going to
the dentist means to receive service which will
result in arresting the progress of disease in
the teeth or of building up broken down or
partly useless teeth and making them fit to do
service.
Facial deformities are corrected by the use OF
instruments of recent discovery, and in cases
where the teeth have decayed beyond redemption
they are extracted and artificial sets are made
which supply in a great measure the loss of the
original
But what is true Of the dentist in the uptown
brownstcne district is far from true as to his
professional brother in the tenement house dis
trict, where there is fully as much call for the
dentists services. There the tooth -puller" Is
still In evidence. and toothless men and women
hours Of pain and agony and lifelong discom-
fort have marked his track.
His Office may be found without much effort.
Tor he usually has a large sign swung from his
door window and there frequently
smaller signs displayed on which the Doc
tors" skill in the art Of extracting and filling
teeth Is advertised for the benefit Of the suffer-
Ing public. Teeth extracted without pain" is
legend which may be seen at short intervals,
and one dentist in the Russian district outdid
all his competitors by distributing handbis
headed: Teeth filed while you wait"
These men do inestimable HARM" said
prominent dentist. land their malpractice is not
confined to any particular branch of the work.
Comparatively good teeth extracted by them
which, under proper treatment, might have been
saved; useless diseased stumps doc
tored' In bungling manner and the teeth with
which they come in contact contaminated
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all sorts Of experiments are INDUCED in at the
expense Of the poor people. The so-caled
dentists advertise freely in the papers which
their neighbors read. and they send handbis
and dodgers to the places where the poor peo-
pie assemble. These handbills tell Of wonder
iul cures and of low prices which are charged.
The fact that most Of the dentists who prac-
Use In this way make money shows that they
are not seen In their true light by the people
VINO patronize them. I have seen filings which
were not only useless. but they wrought much
injury. and have seen people whose jaws have
oeen fractured by the rough and unskied
treatment received at the hands of these ig-
norant people. One man who had been in this
sort OF practice for years was asked by a scien-
anc man to give the names Of the human teeth.
ana said only know that there are two
nnds-front teeth and back teeth"
The operations which the INSCRIPTIONS and
ignorant dentist performs depend frequently
On MS estimate Of the length Of the patients
purse poor person with toothache is re-
"eved BY having the tooth extracted. with pain
VI without according as the person may elect.
there Is money in sight other and more ex-
pensive treatment is suggested. and in cases
"nere the patient IL well-to-do and sufficiently
usnse whole sets Of good teeth have been ex-
uacted merely for the purpose Of making new
ones, FOR which round sum might be charged.
AN incident which illustrates this method was
eated by dentist At a recent meeting OF his
professional brethren
woman came to dentists office on the East
que ore evening. She had cloth tied around
- face and q shawl was thrown over her head.
4. ~. vas plainly clad and moaned and walled
IS - pam The dentist made IN examination