New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07
FACES MADE OVER.
York of the Dentist as Beauty
Doctor" Orthodontia


IN dentistry who sraightens crooked teeth and re
pairs broken Jaws and restores the prlstine ioVeh-
OF the countenance marred by accident or ois-
ease The dentist who is also beauty doctor is
the product of the last two decades In the twenty
years in which the dentists have been changing the
shape of the faces of many OF their patients they
given the lie to the old saying that beauty IS
only skin deep The scientifically trained beauty
doctor accomplishes his wonders by changing the
position of teeth and jaws. and MS work mas a
money value hard to estimate It often greatly IN
creases the patients opportunity for earning Nv
ing
For example, A boy to the orthodonua
sDecalist-or, If he poor boy, to some free
orthodonta clinic like that conducted in this city
bv the Harvard Dental School The boys appear
ance would practically prevent him from OBTAINING
employment from nine out of a dozen prospectus
EMPLOYERS His front teeth prominently overhang
those of his lower jaw and his chin retreatS uh'ii
It can hardly be said that nature has provided MN
with one. His complexion is muddy and Ill nour-
ished. To the prospective employer VINO KNOWS
little of medicine, he is strkingiy suggestive Oh
the criminal type of hunanity-a fallacious aIsu-
ment for, while the weakness that leads 10 crime
under temptation is frequently enough written in
lower face the inherent criminal tendency mes
signals the eye sockets. And this same boy
leaves the orthodontia clinic after perhaps mohths
of patient treatment. altogether different young
ster. His chin is normal. His teeth bite together
as teeth ought to bite. Improved digestion has
given him improved health and complexion ana
improved health Strengthened his shoulders and
given him new mental well anatomical face
with which meet the task of making living.
During the last season the Harvard Dental
School which was establish free clinic
of this kind, has treated about hundred patients
in orthodontia. These cases. of course. are only
small fraction of the number treated by the
various dental schools in the fifteen years since
the first clinic was established-to say nothing of
the unrecorded that have been handled by
the increasing of specialists in private prac-
tce. The total number of faces thus made over
would undoubtedly up to surprisingly large
number and the amount of individual good ALREADY
accomplished by this remarkable development OF
dentistry is literally incalculabe
When It is explained. the work Of the dentist
who is also a beauty doctor seems simple. lie
makes over a face simply by slow pressure SCI
entifcally applied. day after day, until the teeth
and Jaw Of pa tent are literally moved into their
normally proper relations. On small scare II Is
like moving a house from one part Of a lot TO
another or lifting it up to have another story put
under it at the basement level The process is in
evitably slow for nature must aid each inf1ntesi-
mai change by absorbing the waste tissue and &C
comnodating the moving tooth to it's new conol-
tions When 1t is finished, the result Is therefore
as permaneHk as if nature had originally placed
the laws in a normal relation. But, simple as the
process seems theory, each case in practice is
senarste problem Primarily the orthodontst is
not aiming at facial beauty; he Is simply working
to make the teeth they ought to BE- ana "nen
that Is done the improvement N faclal expression
is an inevitable result
How this Improvement enters into the WORKING
eI,cancy of practically every profession and walk
of life is something to be realized only after VlsU
to one of these free Harvard clinics ana an eAaIi-
ination of the different kinds of patients. Inc
clinic BY the way, occupies the room In the ola
building of the Harvard Medical School "here
oliver Wendell Holmes delivered his famous dect-
ures This free treatment, yearly becoming Ihoie
widely known, presents an opportunity LOT muse
who cannot afford the expense of long and costly
treatment offer themselves as part OF the edUca
tfon of Young men Who under the tutelage or Wen
known specialists. are studying To become or'ho-
dontists Among the patients are ali sorts ana coi
ditons of wage earners. students from schools ana
colleges small children and representatives o. pIaV-
ticaIly every civilized nationality
In one chair for example, sits young woman
who is studying music in Boston. Two months ago
her front teeth projected that it was impossloe
for her to bite firmly enough lead pencil to hod
if in place but what disturbed her most of all was
! the fear that this defornity would blight her
chances for bright career She came to the scnoDi
hoping against hope Hen IF 5a ortbodonfia treat
inent In other words, light metal spring based
! the teeth under treatment and subjects them 10
slow backward pressure was put ieap teeth
! into normal position. The difference is already SO
nsSe sUecessfuliy and when the operation is I'm
shed she will have teeth that Tor ne6 a5i
eager use her Photograph for an h ba fmnd
IN nOtb
that the shape of the upper part OF ms NOUN l'e
| feres with the clearness of his speech. ana Is
his mouth as Nature intended, shall become
| nerfect sounding board In a third chair one sees
| the moments when the student dentist in his i'm
lnacuate white coat tests ana tsrlsSg5 t;o mis
with the plaster model that SHOWS %na0 t S I4pT
! teeth in when he began treatment tol
teeth must not only he kept copstanIy nh
| the final moment when the upper ana 1o"tr JaM
shall neatly and firmly togethet Eaen e %haiP
life history, and the scene is al me more i
coats. who go from char TO cn tIiCi1s1e Iii p
assisting the students, are specialists Who1r mill
ionaires crowned heads might employ Tor similar
The actual pain of the treatment is very little;
It is much less question OF enduring pam man oL
grasping teeth. The apparatus of course: must
treatment, and the person who IS having ms or her
face changed sits once or twice week IN the
chain ar s and hG he yaoua minor
changes in the apparatus necessary to Keep Things
The work of the specialist with the long name IS
in line with other Developments In dentistry that
have given the modern dentist pracucaE the wn2Ie
field of operations. Cases Of fractured jaw 60
This is distinct gain to the patient for the sur
geon used to mend the Jaw through an incision
the mouth. And not only is the process less pain
but it is much better in its fral results. Fract
reader might suppose The Harvard clinic for eX-
ample, averages one or more cases day straight
iIred either by accident or by disease, hayh on
several occasions been practically re1nodelled at
side Of a face was replaced. Such cases arc rare
Of course. but where they actually happen ne i'm
not deceptive close examination. is great boon
the suffering patient and fustiffes calling the
modern dentist a legitimate beauty doctor