Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-31

II would seem to be Imperative judging from
the number and nature of complaints received, that
the New Jersey Dental Association take prompt
and drastic measures to curb the fake dentist and
make the plying of his trade If it may be termed a
trade an offense against the law. with penalty so
severe that he would be put in jail out of BUSH
ness instanter.
And the Newark Advertising Mems Club has a
duty to perform and this duty to drive this brand
of practitioners from the city.
Next but perhaps i soa.4 be better to say first
should come the police and the prosecutor. to de-
tect the fake dentist in his contemplate operations
and teach him lesson that would deter him from
further work in his swindling line and prove whole
some warning to others of his ilk.
For there is a gruesomeness in the manner the
sake dentist is alleged to carry out designs upon
trusting and msled patients, for 1t affects physical
and mental comfort and the general health of the
Individual 1t is akin body snatching and far
worse than robbery from the person.
The fake" dentist imposes upon his patients
and having them practically at his mercy, impresses
them by his adroit arguments to the end that they
fall easy victims to his wiles to their pecunary loss
and personal discomfort and the fake dentists
financial gain. One of the practises that placed
at the door of the fake dentist is to deceive the
patients into believing that he is using platinum in
their teeth for filing that platinum is the only fill
ing, and then to cheap and inferior material
for filing. but charging for platinum.
To the reputable dentist, who deyotes his best
skill to his patients interests and who is among
those who have sought the aid of the Evening Star
to squelch the fake and the cheat, this platinum
proposition does appeal, does it appeal to
well-informed laymen.
For plate work that is frequently unnecessary,
and never satisfactory the fake dentist charges
exorbitant prices and often goes to the extreme of
removing good filings from the patients mouth, ex-
planning that they harmful and then with amazing
audacty substituting cheap and poor filling, retain
ing the good filling material for other patients
at prices to suit the fake" dentist
Giving advice to patients to the conditions of
their mouths to defective teeth, when there is
no defect whatsoever merely to create alarm and
make paying work for himself, is another practise
to which the fake dentist is prone.
wel-known local practitioner of high repu.e
in the dental fraternity bitterly remarks that soon
the 'fake dentist if not curbed will adopt custom
of removing fine, healthy teeth from patients to be
reserved for his business purposes, and replace
them with false teeth made of celluloid composition
or billiard ball material
The Evening Star will cheerfully cooperate with
the honest earnest and we'll meaning dentist, who
does not stoop to advertise his business wares,
by alluring and deceptive methods representa-
tons, in any calculated to suppress and
punish the fake" dentist. 1t will do this in the in
terest of the honest dentist and for the welfare of
humanity