Show DENTISTS ARE MORE IMPORTANT Pioneer practitioners of the tho den den- dental dental dental tal trade were ere called tooth carpen carpen- carpenters carpenters and they functioned more In Inthe Inthe inthe I the bungling bunging manner of ot barn rais rals raisers raisers ers than in the precise style of ot the th skilled cabinet maker Theirs was crude work If it ever eer crude work were done In the social scale the tho early den dentist was ranked perhaps above the rattlesnake medicine mendicant but never was he such a figure In the community as the horse borse doctor The dentist then had to apologize for his calling Ho lie was AS browbeat browbeat- browbeaten browbeat en by the ordinary run of pill doc doc- doctors doctors tors he be could not gain aln admittance to the semi sacred gatherings of the county county medical associations and his existence was a sorry lorry one ono Indeed Of ot late years the tho trade has been picking up The Carnegie foundation foundation tion for the advancement of ot teach teaching Ing now reports that there lj U ono one dentist to every 1750 1710 or so patients while the run physicians number one of every cT ry potential customers and the tho percentages are gradually becom becoming ing more mora nearly equal The Tho pioneer attitude altitude towards to tooth carpentry was more or less les mechanical You waited till you YOlI had bad a toothache and then went vent In Into Into Into to suffer You Y u waited till your teeth broke down and then you went ent In Into Into Into to the shop for repairs repairs bridge bridge- bridgework work shoring scaffolding abut abutments abutments ments false work masonry or su sut Now there Is such juch jucha sucha a thing as preventive dentistry You KO so to the dentists dentist's twice a year ear and anel literally stop the tooth tooth- toothache toothache I i ache before It happens The big gain in Sn prestige for den den- dentistry dentistry has Las come como through the dIsco discor- discovery ery cry that all sort of ot maladies are traceable to bad teeth Kidney trouble rheumatism heart failure these these and other maladies apparently in no way related to the tho mouth ere ere traced to tooth decay and with this discovery the high hat pill doctor found that it was necessary for him to call dentists in consultation The natural corollary to this Is that the dentist has had to become more than a carpenter with some knowledge of ot sapping mining ma ma- masonry masonry and general blacksmithing He must roust now go to college and not just serve sene an apprenticeship He ile must know anatomy and ho he must know materIa medIca Anesthetics and the ray X-ray are arc now part of ot his tool kit Where once he was a amere amere amere mere artisan he Is now a professional professional professional man who can hold his own with the pill pm rollers r llers In iii any Rotary club of ot the country countr |