Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-08

I " and a real dentist fixed it UP with
great difficulty.
i u can also remember case In
Brooklyn where an operator who want
ed to curry favor with the man
agemerltG by bringing In large fees
hlied u tooth with gold filling and
oelli.berately left q small piece OF cotton
soaked In some antiseptic in the bot
tom OF the cavity.
In about four days this cotton.
worked such damage from gas formed
EXPERIMENTATION that the filling was ac-
tua! lily blown cut of the tooth and the
paul! came, back to have 1t repaired,
gn l,sg suffered agonies meanwhile.
fsIhts time the operator took back the,
gold. put In porcelain cement painted
y with aluminium paint and collected
another big fee.'
s. &s.;71-a snw the contractor In n
so-scnlied dental parlor order out q per-
Iectly good TOOTH, confessed another
operator. because there was a. de-
cayed tooth on each side. as the re-
moHal the sound tooth would make
poss Die more expensive piece OF
rfdge work.
..f Knot her trick we had in raising
the contract deal with the full sets
iof 3teeth advertised for IS. Any one en-
tering and asking for a full set of teeth
" 80 would be shown n large basket of
sets mounted on ordinary black rubber
The visitor would be told to take his
choice and would spend half an hour
trying to find n set that would fit his
mouth AT the end Of that time the
contractor would inquire what was the
+ matter. and upon being told would ex-
anime the mouth and declare loudly
Z that no wonder the standard sets
wouldn't fit because the mouth was
$shaned abnormally.
Llr1, a.
They like to think even their disabili-
ties are different from other peoples;
So convinced. the patient will consent
to the doctor making cast of the
mouth and be shown samples OF full
sets of superior teeth" to choose from
These would cost from SIS to 500, ac-
cording to the outward appearance of
the patient
The work Of the law department of
the New York State Dental society.
covering period of nearly 20 years,
has been Invaluable in suppressing
some of the most fragrant Offenders
against the, law. but experience has
proved that the financial rewards are
80 great that the chief offenders, even
when prosecuted, open up other places
until the special corps OF private detec-
tives employed by the society brings
them to Justice again.
Tho first dishonest dental parlor Of
this type on record was opened in
Chicago In 1880 and met with such enor-
nous financial success that hundreds
of limitations sprang up elsewhere. In
~ years these dental parlors -four
ishcd from Boston to San Francisco, all
operated on the same general plan, and
in many instances under the same
management. The men who financed
these dental confidence games used
ltheir.own names rarely. Usually 1t was
a company
THE silent hackers of the enter
prises usually placed the actual finan-
cial management in the hands of the
cashier. always a woman, as women
are always in charge OF loan shark
offices. The Office staff OF these parlors
often consists only Of one student or
self-taught Nduack operator and an cx-
pert and affnhle calculator, who per-
hnps knows nothing whatever OF dem
atistry and who is called the contractor.
as stated before. a Vandyke beard
and n professional bearing are his chief
qualifications His duty is to appraisc
the patient from a financial standpoint
and arrange a scale of prices In keep
Ing, Il
After the preliminary examination
the patient is turned over to one of the |
working dentists. Il young graduate |
of some dental college preferably,
though not always. and that worthy.
carrying out his Instructions. prolongs |
tho agony as much as possible aud
Fblecds the patient for more deposits at
each VISIT" 5i5