The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09
charm that is painfully lacking in Eu'
rope, for instance.
Shocking Neglect i'm England.


rope, for instance.
Shocking Neglect i'm England.
Wander year or two about the old
world and you will grow almost ac-
customed to the general appalling neg
lect, not only of dental surgery, but OF
all simple, common precautions for the
preservation OF the teeth. In Eng
land, of all the other countries, this
wholesale disregard for personal COM
fort, health and appearance is most
painfully glaring. Among well-bred
not the exception to see children per
mitted to grow up in the darkest ig-
norance of the mission of the tooth
brush. English men and women who
regard their bath as a religious duty
and tidy dress as the badge of COM
mon decency, will be more exercised
over the keeping up of their back
fences than the nice condition of their
front teeth. Children who are born
with n1alformed jaws are allowed to
grow up with this Disagreement which
a little care could easily have correct
ed, and it is not in the least uncom-
mon to see men and women of 25 all
but toothless or enduring the trials
OF complete and clumsy sets of false
worries.
Whether II is the result of prodigious
consumption of sweets or the conse-
quences of neglect through genera
tions, the Englishman's teeth are evil
IDENTIFY of an inferior quality, color and
shape, while the American passion for
diets and for dentists has probably re-
suited in teeth which for quality and
beauty are simply unequaled anywhere
else.
American Dentists
OF course a good deal of the credit
t. H. . i is.
nous. So skillful indeed that it is no
uncommon thing to meet aboard a
swift western bound ship Americans
whose homes are established abroad,
but who run over once in a while TO
have some well known doctor of dem
tistry look over their mouths. The dyed
in the wool Anglomaniac or the convert
to Partisan life all agree that there
are no trustworthy dentists outside the
United States, and they will also aver
that the American abroad is not now
SO easily identified by his or her ac-
cent as by the beautiful teeth that a
smile will reveal.
The abilities of our dentists have not
been slow, however, to work an in
fiuence on the minds of our English
brethren. The American wives of Eng
ish husbands have given the tooth
brush a boom throughout the United
Kingdom by enforcing its scrupulous
exercise in their nurseries, and in Lon
don society the common excuse for
trip to the states is ito have one of
those capital Yankee dentists run over
my molars, don't you know"
The Art of Restoration.
What really seems to have conquered
all foreign prejudice in favor Of the
Yankee methods is the ability with
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build fairly presentable front row
out of the wrecks of long neglect or
the poorest material. To-day in fact
nothing is impossible to the American
dentist short of making new teeth grow
in the jaw of an adult. In the minds
of some enthusiasts there is a belief
that the day will come when even that
miracle will be performed, so great
have been the wonders worked by spe-
cialists.
1t is the specialist who is all supreme
in dentristy; and the one over whose
skilled hands more hot tears of honest
gratitude and admiration are dropped
is the genius who wields the forceps.
IN the good old days any village black
smith or kindly horse doctor would pull
toeth and was often called upon to
exercise his muscle. To-day it is not
an uncommon thing for consultation
to be first held over mortaIly injured
molar before it's eviction is decided
upon, and then, when the sad news is
conveyed that the sufferer must have it
out, the family dentist sends the pa
lent to a surgeon dentist, whose bust
ness is exclusively that OF pulling teeth.
He is always specialist of profound
knowledge and exquisite skill, aided in
his operations by an assistant, and
guaranteed to do the business with
dispatch and almost without pain. No
cruel lacerations, abortive efforts, dan
gerous bleeding, or exquisite pain ac-
companies the deft operation of this
man of science and experience. The
patient is treated with all the consid-
Grafton and precautions of one about
to lose a limb, and when the tooth is
lifted out it is done so swiftly, so pain
lessly and so tidily that sometimes oc-
ular demonstration is necessary in Or
der to convince the patient that the in
evitable has happened.
Dentists Direct Diets.
What, after all, the expert family
dentist does these days Is to watch and
clean the teeth, fill cavities, direct the
diet and prevent encroachment of dis
ease. His chief care is to guard against
the inroads of uric acid in the system,
and when a gout infested mouth is
whose speciality is the treatment of
lockulosis. The specialist, in this dys-
peptic age, has so advanced in the
treatment of this disease, which attacks
with a sandy deposit the base of the
tooth and eventually loosens the sound
white molars, that he is now able with
exquisite little instruments to scrape
the base of the teeth perfectly clean,
to force a way under the gum to the
root and save all but those that are
already rocking on their foundation.
what Specialists Do.
When it is a case of Riggs disease
the family dentist also forwards his
client to a specialist, and what is gen.
orally remarkable is the way he will
take a sorry looking mouth and diet it
back to health and beauty. For the
good of her teeth he will dock this pa
tient his morning indulgence in grape
fruit, the juice of which is destructive
to enamel of certain qualities. When
it is a case of downright sore gums he
insists on milk for a while, and when
patient dropped in on her family dem
tist the other day and walled that there
was an ache in every grinder and in
a look around the walls of perfect ivory
had for breakfast.
Grapes only, doctor. l am trying
the grape cure at a friends sugges-
tion," she answered.
"Well, leave off grape cure for a week
and see what will happen" suggested
the dentist. 1--WE known the acid OF