The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-27

lists have been changing the shape of the faces of many of their patients they have given the lie to the old say ing that beauty is only skin deep. The scientifically trained beauty doctor ac- complishes his wonders by changing
 the position of teeth and jaws and his work has a money value hard to esti- mate. It often greatly increases tRe patients opportunity for earning a living.
 For example: A boy comes to the orthodontia specia1ist-or, if he Is a poor boy, to some free orthodontia clinic like that conducted in this city by the Harvard Dental School. The boys appearance would practically prevent him from obtaining employ ment from nine out of a dozen pros pectlve employers. His front teeth Prominently overhang those of his low CT jaw and his chin retreats until 1t can hardly be said that Nature has pro- yided him with one. His complexion is muddy and ill-nourished To the prospective employer. who knows little of medicine, he Is strikingly sugges- tive of the criminal type of humanity fallacious argument. for while the weakness that leads to crime under
 temptation Is frequently enough writ
 ten in the lower face, the inherent
 criminal tendency files It's signals from
 the eye sockets. And this same boy
 leaves the orthodontia clinic after
 perhaps months of patient treatment,
 an altogether different youngster. His
 chin Is normal. His teeth bite togeth-
 CT as teeth ought to bite. Improved di-
 gestion has given him improved health
 and gcomplexion: and improved health
 strafghtened his shoulders and given
 him & new mental as well as anatoml-
 cal face with which to meet the task
 of making a living.
 During the past season the Harvard Dental School, which was the first to establish a free clinic of this kind, has treated about a hundred patients in orthodontia. These cases, of course, are only a small fraction of the number treated by the varions dental schools in the fifteen years since the first clinic was established-to say nothing of the unrecorded cases that have been han died by the increasing host of special ists in private practice. The total num- Der of faces thus made over would un- doubtedly run up to a surprisingly large number and the amount of tndi- vidual good already accomplished by this remarkable development of den- tistry Is literally incalculable.
 When it is explained the work of the dentist who is also beauty doctor seems simple. He makes over face simply by slow pressure. scientifically applied, day after day until the teeth and jaw of a patient are literally moved into their normally proper rela- tions. On a small scale 1t is like nov ing a house from one part Of a lot to another. or lifting it up to have anoth- CT story put under 1t at the basement level. The process Is inevitably slow, for nature must aid each infinitesimal change by absorbing the waste tissue and accommodating the moving tooth to it's new conditions. When 1t Is fin- ished the result Is therefore as perma- nent as if nature had originally placed the jaws in a normal relation. But simple as the process seems in theory each case in practice is a separate problem. Primarily the orthodontist Is not aiming at facial beauty; he Is sim ply working to make the teeth as they ought to be, and when that Is done the improvement in facial expression Is an inevitable result.