The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-26

He Only Pulls Tecth-Others Send
Patients to Him.
Detroit Journal.


On the seventh floor OF building on
Woodward avenue there is a dentist who
does nothing but pull teeth. and, strange
TO say, most of his customers are sent TO
him by other dentists.
Tooth pulling is his speciality. and no
money could hire him 10 ill tooth or
build bridge. If he did anything except
pull teeth he might as well shut up shop.
for the other dentists wouldn't have any
thing more to do with him. That's his
strong point. The other dentists trust him
mot to steal their customers
Dentists don't like TO pull teeth IL is
more trouble than il is worth. When any
body wants a tooth pulled he wants it done
at once. He goes to the dentists and ex-
while he yanks out the offending molar.
or, worse still. the patient must leave the
chair. II the dentist has only one.
The dentist doesn't like to refuse a Gus
toner whose sufferings demand immediate
attention, and yet he may be engaged on a
difficult job that will pay him many times
as much as the paltry fee for yanking out
tooth. lie would like to have the sufferer
take his tooth somewhere else. but dares
not recommend another dentist, for fear
of losing the customers trade. There Is
nothing that pleases a customer so much
as the successful extraction OF a tooth.
Few people. either men or women, have
teeth pulled without dreading the opera
ton, and if the dentist does neat job
with little pain, he earns their everlasting
gratitude
'The dentist whose customer wants
TOOTH DuiltO KNOWS tDlS. anu ne also
knows, If the customer demands gas. that
he runs some risk Of not giving satisfac-
ton, owing TO unavoidable impurities or
gas and the difficulty OF properly admin
istering il. The commercial nitrous oxide
gas used by dentists Is bought ready made.
put up i'm fluid form i'm steel cylinders under
great pressure, and cannot be relied upon
with certainty. IL IL should be impure the
patient will suffer more or less nausea.
besides not getting completely under the In
fiuence of the anaesthetic. The effect or
the purest gas, administered by an expert,
lasts only fraction OF a minute, and the
tooth must be pulled during the lew Sec
onds the patient is unconscious, or there
Will be trouble.
For these and other reasons the aver
age dentist avoids pulling teeth. and
specialist having located I'm Detroit this
sumner they send their patients 10 him.
He manufactures his own gas. knowing
In TO he absolutely pure, and he does
nothing else but pull teeth. his patients
are separated from their molars under the
best possible conditions and go away sat-
isfed.
II Ia no uncommon thing for women
TO have several teeth extracted before leay-
pulled fourteen teeth for a woman, and a
Young girl had twelve pulled out. They
took gas but IL is needless 10 say that
All the teeth were not pulled Immediately
III the dentist kept right on yanking teeth
a good deal of blood would be swallowed
by the unconscious patient, which would
cause nausea. The operator pulls few
teeth and waits for the blesding 10 sub
side or plugs up the cavities long enough
10 administer a fresh dose and yank out
a few more. and so on till the job is done.