The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-26
WOMEN WHO BOSS DENTISTS.
IN TYE MN ORDER or THINGS
THEY ARE IN CONTROL.
They Receive the Patients. Make the Mar.
gains and Run the RusineTs-Ihc
Dentist Merely Works Of the Tern
system In SOFT allied Dental Pariors.

Matters In the dental world have been
| ~ vo!ution,ed Of late. particularly IN met
ropolitan Offices. The customer at on" OF
the s1-called dental paTlors finds tho dentist
working under the orders Of young woman.
The holder Il a degree in dentistry thus
becomes tie apprentice and the apprentice
becomes the boss.
The change has been brought about
by business considerations. People go
shopping nowadays for dental work Just
as they 90 shopping for feathers, jackets
or fur capes.
Consultation free" is the bait that al
tracts much custom. Il a o DIS a chance
for comparing tie cost Of work in the va
r1ous Offices. There fore people with teeth
to DO treated make the rounds OF num-
ber Of Offices before making a choice.
Natuy ally. dentist couldn't afford to
waste daylight with such trifies. 1t Is
better that he should pu. in all his time
at drilling and filing cavities and IN between
visitor. make teeth So II is eXpedient
that there should be some person TO look
after visitors.
There are not a few women established
la dental Offices OF their own and taking
in . AMI 500 day who have knowledge
OF only the ridinents of dentistry But
hey have secured shilful practitioners
to work for them, and their tact with
customers has secured success.
These women are born business direc-
tors. They are in their element when
pushing @ trade. and have all the snap and
90 and smart appearance that count in
popular estimation. Besides. they look
Al az . h. nj Nor
small economies.
Who're did they learn their business2
Well, there is n, exactly 4 Q COL for the
training Of Girls for such business but
there ia a place here in town where they
may learn it, all the same.
The originator of the idea OF having a
chain of dental par!ors all managed by
girl supervisors first taught few girls for
his own purposes. Then he took Oh APP
pren,ices to work under dentist for one
week without pay in or er TO learn the
business.
The morn euterprisibg Of these girls,
after working for him while. struck out
for themselves. They realized that to
run a dentists oAice requires little capital
merely some business knack and the join
ing Of forces with an experienced dentist.
There are always dentists Of considerable
ability who have failed Ia get ahead and
are willing to work under the direction Of
a widc-awake Young woman whose per-
sonality and business knowledge would
make them both prosperous. II j. |. why
you see sedatc, nj ldie-aged dentists work
ing docie and anilble under the authority
Of up-to-datn young women almost young
| enough 10 I've their daughters, II is queer
combination of things. hut it works well.
Inc cir! brings TO the bus ness youth, snap
and business ability: ard the dentist chips
IN the plcdoing, patient work that tells.
The woman dentist proper has never
become popular. The patrons have more
men;.
The course o! instruction for a woman
who il to manage a dental Office owned by
somebody cise need only cover a week
or two at the Utmost. The other requisites
Tor the pOa, are honesty, a certain execu-
tive ability. knowledge of bookkeep ing
and power 10 manage The dentist ard to
persuade patients To have more work dole
than they originally |. tended.
Each night she reports the days doings
to the superior at the head Office, gives
stri.t account 81 the number of people
who were in ,La' day. and Of what was done
for each. She rrHders UP the each and the
enc, lss ard gives in The amount Of gold used;
makes ,omTlsint OF the dentist il she wants
20 itern'z expenses and expectations.
~ an " 'ur llU'nptl Vi DtOpic nave lnelT
teeth e1anined wi hout making contracts
the girl supcrv is held responsible. II is
her duty 10 persuade people that her espe-
ial of'icc Ia tho best place 10 get the work
d, no.
The dentist. when his days work is
over. takes his hat and goes home With no
reporting 10 do nor accounts TO render
up. lie draws hks regular salary and II
there IL fault found with him or his work,
il is found solely through the girl mana ger.
lie Is a passive factor In the business and
cannot even get into the Office of morning
until the girl appears and let's him in and
puts him Al work.
Sometimes the girl supervisor and the
dentist act I'm collision TO defrauG the
proprietor. Whom receipts are suspcousiv
small or some slight incident eXcites doubt
Of the young woman, some discreet person
ia sent Ia that particular Office Ia have his
teeth examined and make a contract. So
the fraud IL sometimes detected.
Sometimes tho giil ovarseer and the
dentist detected in Transactions Of the sort
are discharged. open AL Office for them
selves in another quarter of town and
profit by the experience previously gained.