Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-24
ACHING MOLARs
Of WEE kIDDIES
TREATED GRATIS
Newark Free Dental Clinic a
Boon to Hosts of Little
Sufferers.

MY tooth-it hurts something awful
Doctor"
This is the ~plaintive appeal that the
volunteer dentists of the Newark Den
tai Clinic Association near day altsr
day from a long line Of tattered little
clients who besiege the Market and
Newton street rooms of the s~oci4ty.
With cheerful timidity the children, in
variably unaccompanied by frleud or
parent, submit themselves to the deu-
tai chair and TO the tender nercies Of
the white-coote ted operator, who handles
a glittering confusion of bright instrd.
ments with a dexterity that az once
f~ascinates them and arouses their ad-
miration.
First in line, perhaps, thor Is "a bog
of 10 twisting his hat with elaboral.
no%nchaiance. He gives placa - 81 ul..
mystiied little tot of 1, WI has tor-
gotten toothache and terre "A sine ex=
citement Of the nome ard Sc
through the lisl 4 from eHts q.
forty W6o are IL a eve day -3a
the Newark Dental Clinic associate
opens It's doors.
The society was |oreaniae2 June -
1909, after siN 1r eight Charitable q
stitutions in connection with a com
mittee OF the Central Dental Associ-
ton, had started the movement.
How II was started.
Money was subscribed by the char
liable institutions, assisted By DR.. G..
5. Stockton. In the Newark Pay
ground Commission building. Il New
ton street, q room was given Tor a
dental office. and the Newark Social
Settlement gave similar a~ccg;nmod4-
lions in its building at 559 Market
street
At first the association was hamperei
through lack Of funds, bat q bill was
passed IN the Legislature allow ng
$1,000 to be put aside for such work by
Newark. This year the amount vas
raised to $1,000 by the passage OF d
new bill which wal advocated by
former United states Senator James
Smith. jr., AssenblyInan Frank Shall
voy, Mayor jacob Haussling, James r.
Nugent and Assemblyman Thomas Nc
Gran. With this money, if the Dental
Clinic receives it. the trustees hope to
r~eorganize the work go that a dan Isl
may be permanently secured for each
office.
Only two hours on Tuesday, Wednes-
day. Thursday and Friday have teNn
given to the work so far, but under !
the new system the hours would be
from 8 TO 5 every day.
we have a waiting list" Chief Den
raj Surgeon Wentworth Holmes eX-
planned to a STAR reporter today, "of
over two hundred. This we shall have
to drop as a task OF impossible dinnen-
sions. But that is the reason We are
SO anxious TO put the Dental Clinic As
ys~ociation on a better working basis,
with hired dentists. The work we have
done has been extensive, even as IL is.
In the last year we gave 1,s0t treat
ments altogether, extracting $50 teeth
and filling about 500. You see, the six
year molar, a most important tooth. is
the one usually in the worst condition.
1t takes time to treat it, and this in
wolves more or less pain. Neglest, ~
course, is the chief cause of most Of
the trouble"
DR.. Holmes explained that DR..
George Holmes. medical supervisor Of
the Board Of Education, had cards dis
tributed to the school children for
treatment at the clinic. The charit-
able institutions also send often and
would do SO more frequently II the as
isociation's resources We're more exten-
sive.
DR.. Laban Dennis is president of the
association. DR.. Charles a. Meeker
viee-president, DIR. William Talbot Sec
rotary and treasurer, DR. wentworth
Holmes chief dental surgeon, Dr.. VIII
lam l.. Fish, consulting dental sur
geon; Herbert Boggs. counsel. Directors
Miss Emily Hamblen. d.. II. 5. Sui
phen, DR.. n. A. Bernstein, Dir. c. W.
r. H%olbrook, Rabbi solomon Foster,
Monsignor Isaac P. Whelan. Miss Anna
.Mackay, Mrs. Alexander Grant. Felix
Fuld, Curtis r. Burnett. George e.
Reeve and Richard Deubigh.