The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-05-05
Been to the Dentist Lately?

In no field of modern science has
greater strides been made than in
dentistry. The dentists field is com
posed of large acherage, he has a
strong pull, and the openings that
are presented to him are varied and
many of them large in possibilities.
He usually does his work with great
pains, and has made a bowling sue
cess of the business.
In ancient times men were select
ed in each community to extract
teeth, which was done by striking
them with an axe and if by chance
the tooth was extracted without kill
ing the patient it was an accident
and the man who performed the feat
was called an accidentists. In after
times, improved by time and en-
Hghtment, a hammer and cold
chlsel We're used and the prefix was
dropped, making him plain dent
ist
When dentist gets looking
glass, one hand and pair of forceps
in your mouth and then asks if it
hurts, proper etiquette is to make
slight bow, dropping the hands to
the side and say: "Quite excessively.
yes, or, Yes, indeed. excruciating-
ly so.'' This always makes him smile
and is a feat in articulation that you
are always proud of. A hollow tooth
is always delight to a dentist, be-
cause nature abhors a vacuum and
he is child of nature A dentists
chief instruments of torture are
glmletS, bradS, punches, picks,
spikes, prods, and prizes, with several
others that he uses in extreme cases
Ihe dentist does not use so many
large words as the regular practic-
ing physician, but he has few that
can be articulated safely where u
part OF the teeth are missing in each
jaw. These are hard to SPELL 5ut
they get right at the root of things
when you do spell them.
A dentist is never superficial; he
gets at the root of the matter. They
are like the sails of boat, they
draw and fill. When he draws it. is
not on his imagination nor on yours,
1t is real. He is man of push. When
he pushes his forceps into your
mouth, tongue cannot express your
feelings. There is no room for it to
do so. Good dentists are rare, but
this is not right. They should be
boiled clear through. Dentists would
not use so many hard words as they
do if they had to spell them first.
Dentists have no license to murder;
that is the reason why they always
stop pulling just before you are
dead:
A dentist has no right to put more
than one hand in your mouth at a
time. He has to keep one free to
n q
there is no law that prevents him
takes but few minutes to reduce a
cavity to the minimum and about
the same time to reduce your pocket
book to thank ye, mum"
1t is better to be a horse doctor
than dentist, for when dentists
patient kicks he has to put more
looking-glass into their mouth and
tell them pleasant story. When a
horse doctor loses his patience he
says cuss words. When a dentist
loses his he is sued for $4,000 dam
ages for malpractice and kicked out
of the church. Yes, it is better to be
horse doctor than a dentist.
After all, dentist are useful. They
are the only ones who will stand
sllll anu leI you tell them all about
that tooth-how it aches by spells
put not when you are within a mile
OF a dentist They don't pretend to
cure by absent treatment; in fact
they want to be present to an over
Whelming extent. You need never
lose single tooth, or double one,
II you tell the dentist all about them.
he Will tell you that that double
tooth will come out singly, and that
the biggest fool on earth has just as
many wisdom teeth as the philoso-
pher. Ii dentist has a secret by
which he can make a front tooth
look better than anyone else can, he
can't keep the secret for it is soon
in eyerybodys mouth. When dent
ist dies it is usually from old age.
Bailey in the Homestead.
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