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 "Life without industry is guilt; 
 Industry without art is brutality." 
 
 Klbert Hubbard delighted in pointing out 
 the mistakes of doctors, and Robert Ingersoll j 
 went about the country, at one time, deliver- j 
 ing a sarcastic lecture on the mistakes of Moses. . 
 <JThis chapter is a confession of a serious mistake 
 made by dentists; a mistake that is the cause of 
 much newspaper discussion today, although the I 
 facts in connection with it are unknown to the j 
 newspapers themselves, and to the public gen- 
 erally. 
 
 ^ This strange mistake consisted in devitalizing 
 teeth indiscriminately, and the fact of its being ! 
 a mistake was not known until the X-ray dis- 
 covered it. Previous to that time it was taught 
 in dental colleges, recommended by standard ; 
 text-books and practised by every dentist with 
 skill enough to use it. It consisted in destroying 
 the pulps (" nerves ") in all teeth that were used 
 to carry crowns or bridges, and may be called the 
 devitalization mistake. 
 
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 9 Devitalization was made easy by pressure 
 anesthesia (a painless method of removing pulps) 
 and the mistake became general largely through 
 this. It was carried on for years because the evil 
 results which followed it were never dreamed 
 possible until the X-ray told its story. These 
 results came from leaving portions of the pulp in 
 root-canals, and from not filling canals to the end 
 after the pulp was removed. 
 
 <J The devitalization mistake was based on the 
 belief that roots were properly filled, when in 
 truth they were not. For there was no way of know- 
 ing whether roots were properly filled or not until 
 the X-ray came into use; and it did not come 
 into use until thousands of teeth had been devit- 
 alized and the roots imperfectly filled. 
 <I Complete filling of root-canals was always con- 
 sidered necessary to save a devitalized tooth, and 
 was the aim of every conscientious practitioner. As 
 long as the tooth, or gum, did not show signs of 
 subsequent trouble this aim was supposed to be 
 accomplished. But when trouble ensued, and roots 
 were occasionally found to be imperfectly filled, 
 there was no idea that any harm could follow 
 further than the loss of the tooth. 
 *I For no one imagined in those days that systemic 
 disease lurked in a dental abscess. Hence the efforts 
 of the profession were directed solely to the preser- 
 vation of teeth, with never a thought that some- 
 
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 thing more important was involved. If it became 
 necessary to extract, after a root-canal operation, 
 the dentist was mortified, it is true. But this was 
 simply because the tooth was lost. 
 <I Imagine then the feelings of a conscientious 
 practitioner, who had spent years in perfecting 
 his root-canal technique, when the revelations 
 of the X-ray were suddenly thrust upon him 
 with the assertion that seventy-nine per cent of 
 root-canal fillings were imperfect. 
 <J Imagine also how this man, who had worried over 
 the loss of a tooth, must have worried when he 
 learned that every one of his imperfect root-fillings 
 was a possible cause of serious bodily ailmeDt, 
 such as arthritis, neuritis, diseases of the heart, 
 kidneys, stomach, eyes, nerves, etc. 
 *I It was an astounding revelation of a tremendous 
 mistake, and at least one honest, careful operator 
 broke down as a result of it. He had spent four- 
 teen years in my office specializing in root- 
 canal work, priding himself on his thoroughness, 
 and giving the best that was in him, without stint, 
 to his patients. Suddenly the X-ray showed that 
 his work was not what he fondly believed it to be. 
 He worried over the matter until his health failed, 
 and he retired from practice. I believe there were 
 many others like him. 
 
 <I The devitalization mistake involved practically 
 every progressive dentist, including myself. Con- 
 
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 sequently every man with an extensive practice, 
 no matter how skillful he may be, has imperfectly 
 filled roots in the mouths of his patients; and 
 many of those roots have abscesses on them which 
 medical men say range from dangerous to deadly. 
 <J There can be no doubt that the pus in dental 
 abscesses contains germs of a poisonous na- 
 ture; that in many cases these germs get into j 
 the blood stream and, by the process known as 
 metastasis, are carried to distant parts of the body 
 to work havoc. Therefore it is important to know ; 
 what should be done with dead teeth; for any 
 dead tooth, unless the root-canal is properly 
 filled, may give trouble tomorrow even though it \ 
 is innocuous today. 
 
 <J In the first place it should be understood that ( 
 " blind " abscesses, as they are called, seldom give 
 local trouble, such as soreness of the tooth or 
 inflammation of the gum. Often these teeth carry 
 perfect fillings or crowns, and to all outward 
 appearance are as useful and harmless as any in I 
 the mouth. 
 
 flj But all dead teeth, and any suspected of being 
 dead, should be X-rayed whether the roots 
 have been filled or not, and whether the teeth 
 themselves give trouble or not. Where the X-ray ' 
 discloses an abscess, if it does not cover too large > 
 an area, the root-canal should be opened, the pus 
 evacuated and treatment instituted until the dis- j 
 
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 charge has ceased. Then a root-filling should be 
 inserted and checked up with the X-ray, as des- 
 cribed in my chapter on root-canal work. 
 <I The above applies to people in good health. But 
 what should be the treatment for patients suffer- 
 ing from systemic disease, due to local infection? 
 Should their teeth be extracted, or should the 
 canals be sterilized, treated and filled? 
 This question cannot be answered in general. It 
 depends on the physical condition of the patient, 
 the extent of the affected area, the value of the 
 tooth cosmetically and for mastication, its sus- 
 ceptibility to treatment, and the probability of 
 nature's aid in a permanent cure. 
 H In all such cases I prefer to talk with the 
 patient's physician, before reaching a decision 
 as to what should be done. 
 
 fl The use of the X-ray is such an indispensable 
 aid in diagnostic and root-canal work that no 
 dentist has any moral right, if indeed he has any 
 legal right, to practise without it. 
 ^ All progressive practitioners use the X-ray to- 
 day, and it is wise to go to a dentist for this 
 work rather than to an X-ray " laboratory," 
 where the work is so cheap that it is necessarily 
 done hastily and imperfectly. Furthermore, radi- 
 ograms cannot be depended upon alone in 
 dental diagnosis; they must be confirmed by 
 examination of the teeth, and only a dentist of 
 
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 experience is competent to make this examina- 
 tion, compare it with the films, and render a 
 correct interpretation. 
 
 <& The X-ray equipment in my office consists of 
 two complete outfits, one for diagnosis and one for 
 root-canal work, in charge of an expert in X-ray 
 technique. My own time is given up largely to 
 X-ray diagnosis, and I make it a point to pass on 
 all obscure and unusual cases personally. 
 ^1 My fee for single radiograms is $2.50; for the 
 entire mouth $25.00. This latter does not mean a 
 few films of the ordinary kind, many of which are 
 indistinct and worthless ;but anywhere from ten to 
 twenty exposures, giving different angles of the 
 more inaccessible teeth, so as to be able to make an 
 accurate diagnosis. 
 
 <J This fee also covers consultation with the 
 patient's physician, when necessary, either at my 
 office or by 'phone. 
 

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 "No man is born into this world 
 whose work is not born with him." 
 
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 HEN I entered my father's office in 1877, a 
 bright man could learn all there was to 
 * dentistry in a few months. It was custom- 
 ary in those days for a student to pay one or two 
 hundred dollars to a dentist for the privilege of 
 picking up in the latter's office whatever crumbs 
 of dental knowledge he could in a year. But before 
 the end of that period the student often knew as 
 much as his preceptor, and hung out a sign 
 announcing, to a world unprotected by health 
 laws, the professional birth of a " surgeon-den- 
 tist." Now, however, dental knowledge has grown 
 until the crumbs have become a loaf, requiring 
 \ four years of kneading at college, and as many 
 more of baking in active practice, before it is 
 fit to serve. Even then, after eight years of study 
 and work, the average dentist does not possess 
 manual dexterity in more than one branch of his 
 profession, no matter how well grounded he may 
 be in general theory. For every man inherits more 
 
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 natural skill in one branch of dentistry than in 
 others, and little by little develops the branch that 
 comes easiest, and neglects the rest. 
 <I Dentistry today consists of eight branches : 
 (1) Fillings and inlays. (2) Crown and bridge- 
 work. (3) Therapeutics, (this includes root- 
 canal treatment). (4) Extracting and oral 
 surgery. (5) Artificial teeth. (6) Orthodontia 
 (straightening). (7) Dental radiography. (8) 
 Dental hygiene. 
 Q These eight branches differ from each other so 
 much that they require eight distinct kinds of skill. 
 Yet ninety dentists out of a hundred, possessing 
 as they do only one kind of skill, for economic 
 reasons undertake all eight branches. Naturally 
 seven-eights of such work is not well done; in 
 many cases it is very badly done. The obvious 
 remedy for this condition is the one that has done 
 more for scientific and commercial progress than 
 any other— SPECIALIZATION. 
 <J All men on my staff are specialists; not in 
 the usual meaning of this word — high-priced, 
 single-minded practitioners, often applying their 
 own specialty when another would be better — but 
 specialists in the sense of confining their work to 
 a particular branch, while consulting and co- 
 operating with specialists in the other branches. 
 When any part of the work can be done better 
 by one man on my staff than it can by the others 
 
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 it goes to that man. There are no students and no 
 recent graduates among us, the average length of 
 practice, since graduation, being twenty-two 
 years. Yet we are still learning, and increasing 
 original skill by much doing of one thing. 
 ^ It takes but a moment's thought to realize that 
 this method attains, as no other can, the three 
 most important features in dentistry — Skill, 
 Painlessness and Economy. Skill, because practice 
 makes perfect: Painlessness, because skill creates 
 gentleness; Economy, (quality considered) be- 
 cause skill saves time, and thereby money, since 
 time is the principal item of cost in dentistry. 
 
 <& Our fees are not low, because we use too much 
 care, skill and time, to compete in price with 
 the careless, unskillful or hasty. On the other 
 | hand, while our work puts us in a class with the 
 j highest-priced men in the profession, our fees are 
 i less than theirs because, through specialization, 
 j we are not limited to one pair of hands. 
 
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 ^ The X-ray opened a new field of usefulness in 
 revealing that the cure for many bodily ailments j 
 lies in the scientific treatment of the teeth, and 
 this enlarged opportunity for the relief of human 
 suffering has given every worthy dentist renewed 
 interest and pleasure in his work. The new meth- 
 ods, however, require much more time than the 
 old, and make higher fees imperative, especially 
 in root-canal work. Time is a dentist's capital,yet 
 he must be free to lavish it on difficult cases ; and 
 he cannot do this if his fees are too low. 
 
 flf This practice is not conducted solely for making 
 money. It strives to give and receive happiness 
 through service. But this is impossible with 
 patients who put price before quality, and hence 
 we do not seek the patronage of such patients. 
 They cannot enter into the spirit of this office, 
 or contribute to the feeling of confidence and co- 
 operation which must exist between a professional 
 man and his client if the relationship is to be 
 mutually satisfactory. Our appeal therefore is to 
 that discriminating class who demand progressive- 
 ness, sympathy and skill in dental service, who 
 appreciate such service when rendered, and grate- 
 fully pay a reasonable — not excessive — price for 
 it. Only through such patients can we give the 
 best we are capable of, or receive the joy which 
 every man should find in his work. 
 
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 ROOT-CANAL q No dentist can do root-canal 
 work properly who does not use 
 the X-ray at least twice on each 
 root, and frequently three times, or more. 
 q The correct technique, after sterilization, is to 
 open the canal until the apex seems to be reached. 
 The old methods failed just here because often the 
 apex seemed to be reached when, as a matter of 
 fact, it was not. The new way is to insert a diag- 
 nostic wire and take a picture to see exactly what 
 progress has been made. If the picture shows the 
 wire has reached the apex, the root-filling is 
 inserted. If not, further work is demanded, and 
 more pictures, until the wire can be plainly seen 
 at the proper point. Then comes the root-filling 
 of chlora-percha, and, after that is placed, another 
 picture, to show whether the filling has reached 
 the apex. If not, it must come out and another 
 go in; and this process must continue until the 
 final picture shows a filling extending the entire 
 length of the canal and closing the opening in 
 the apical end. No root-filling which falls short | 
 of this can be considered safe, and such root- j 
 fillings are impossible without the X-ray. 
 q Root-canal work demands more care and 
 thoroughness than anything else in dentistry, but 
 in the hands of an expert operator it is performed 
 without pain, and often without the necessity of 
 filling the root more than once. Yet, even where 
 
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 there is no hitch or complication, the new method 
 requires so much more time than the old that the 
 charge is necessarily much greater than before 
 the X-ray was used. The increased cost, however, 
 cannot be allowed to interfere with the thorough- 
 ness of the work, since it is the most far-reaching 
 in dentistry, involving the comfort, the health, 
 and even the life of patients. It must be done 
 thoroughly or not at all. 
 
 H It should be noted that owing to malformation, 
 or to deposits of secondary dentine which close 
 the canals, some roots cannot be filled to the apex 
 except after unusually long and tedious effort; 
 and a few not even then. In such cases our charge 
 is based on the time consumed. 
 <I Where no complication occurs, our fee for 
 root-canal work is $15.00 per tooth. This in- 
 cludes the use of the X-ray as often as may be 
 necessary during the progress of the work. 
 
 FILLING <I Cost of fillings varies with size, 
 TEETH accessibility and sensitiveness of the 
 cavity, in proportion as these affect 
 time consumed in the operation. 
 
 AMALGAM There are many grades of silver, 
 FILLINGS amalgam or alloy fillings, as they 
 are variously called. We use only 
 the best. $3.00 to $5.00 each. 
 
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 SYNTHETIC are sucn an improvement over 
 PORCELAIN the early " enamel" fillings, both 
 in durability and in color, that 
 they are used now almost ex- 
 clusively in the anterior teeth. $4.00 to $6.00 each. 
 
 are not used as much as formerly, 
 FILLINGS synthetic porcelain fillings having 
 
 largely taken their place in the 
 anterior teeth, and inlays in the posterior. 
 <I Minimum, $5.00. 
 
 wear better than large fillings, and are 
 INLAYS easier for the patient, because they are 
 
 made out of the mouth. But their great 
 advantage is that they can be contoured to the 
 exact shape of the natural teeth; something that 
 cannot be said of any other filling material. 
 
 ! Proper contour is highly important in cavities 
 between the teeth, in order to prevent the im- 
 paction of food which always leads to disease of 
 the gums sooner or later. 
 
 1*1 Many dentists are not experienced in inlay 
 work. One member of my staff has made it a 
 specialty for eleven years. Minimum, $12.00. 
 
 EXTRACTING we do no * consider of minor 
 
 importance, but give it careful 
 
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 done by a man who has had long and special 
 experience in it. We use nitrous-oxide and oxygen 
 under certain conditions, but in most cases we 
 advise our local anesthetic No. 8, as being safer 
 and quite as painless. 
 
 ^ Fee for extracting with No. 8, $1.00 per tooth; 
 with nitrous-oxide, $5.00 for the first tooth, $1.00 
 for each additional tooth. 
 
 ARTI- <I Artificial teeth are held in place by 
 FICIAL plates of various materials. Since some 
 TEETH plates are healthful and some are not, it 
 is a dentist s duty to explain the danger 
 ! from bad plates just as much as to explain the 
 danger from bad root-fillings. After such explana- 
 tion the patient is in a position to act on his own 
 judgment, and not before. Therefore, our first step 
 
 I is to explain the qualities of the different plates, 
 and exhibit samples made up of the various 
 materials so &*> 
 
 <i This branch is in charge of a specialist who has 
 been with me many years. He takes great pains in 
 | selecting teeth to correspond with the complexion, 
 features and age of the patient, and in arranging 
 them to avoid an artificial appearance. After this, 
 they are inserted on a trial plate so that the 
 patient can see just how they will look when 
 finished. Any suggestion or alterations at this 
 j stage can be readily and quickly carried out. 
 
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 Q We make plates of rubber, aluminum, Watts' 
 metal, porcelain, gold, etc., the price ranging, for a 
 
 !full upper or lower set, from $30.00 for rubber to 
 $175.00 for gold. Partial plates from $12.00 up. 
 
 PARTIAL ^ The faults of ordinary partial plates 
 PLATES are serious. They are usually uncom- 
 fortable, and interfere with eating and 
 
 j talking by impinging on the space which nature 
 intended solely for the tongue. But worse than this 
 
 ! they cause decay of the teeth with which they 
 come in contact, and their pressure on the gums 
 produces absorption of the alveolar process, dis- 
 ease of the peridental membrane and loosening of 
 the teeth. 
 <I In short, through loosening or decay, or both, it 
 
 ! is the rule, and not the exception, for partial plates 
 
 j to destroy some or all of the remaining teeth in a 
 few years; often in a few months. Now what bet- 
 ter can be done? 
 
 *I If the remaining teeth are firm, and properly 
 placed, improved bridgework is the best form of 
 restoration. But if the natural teeth do not stand 
 in the proper position, even though they be firm, 
 bridgework is not advisable. In such cases gold 
 
 \ bar dentures are the next best thing. 
 
 OLD BAR <I These consist of, (a) gold bars 
 DENTURES to hold the artificial teeth to- 
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 nients to hold thein in the mouth; (c) gold stops 
 to prevent pressure on the gums. 
 f§ Advantages are : (a) the bar leaves the gum 
 tissue uncovered and healthy and there is no 
 interference with speech or taste; (b) the denture 
 is held more firmly than by any other removable 
 method, and with less injury to the natural teeth; 
 (c) the gold stops avoid the destructive pressure 
 on the gums by putting the strain of mastication 
 on the crowns of the natural teeth. 
 <& When bridgework is not advisable gold bar 
 dentures replace the molars alone, or the molars 
 and bicuspids combined, with a degree of stability 
 and comfort otherwise unattainable. My con- 
 sultation room contains models which make the 
 value of this work quickly apparent, and you are 
 invited to inspect them. The cost varies with 
 each case. Minimum, $125.00. 
 
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 'OME years ago a British medical authority 
 istartled the dental world — particularly the 
 portion on this side of the Atlantic — by 
 denouncing, what he termed "American dentistry" 
 — meaning bridgework. He accused it of being a 
 frequent cause of pyorrhea alveolaris and of serious 
 systemic disease. 
 
 <I There can be no doubt that bridgework has 
 been grossly misused and that pyorrhea and sys- 
 temic disease are often caused by it. This is not 
 the fault of bridgework, however, but is the result 
 of improper construction or application of it. For 
 no other form of tooth-replacement compares 
 with bridgework when properly applied. 
 ^ Where there are a few teeth remaining in the jaw 
 four methods of restoring the missing ones are in 
 use; partial plates, bar dentures, removable bridge- 
 work, and bridgework. Partial plates and bar 
 dentures were mentioned on a previous page. Let 
 us consider the two other methods briefly. 
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 favor of removable bridges, is that they can be taken 
 out to clean while fixed bridgework can not. The 
 answer to this is that the natural teeth are not 
 taken out to clean, and properly constructed fixed 
 bridges are no more difficult to clean than the 
 natural teeth. 
 
 <I Further, removable bridgework (not plate work 
 with clasps, often improperly called " remov- 
 able bridgework ") is tedious and difficult to make. 
 Its use therefore is confined to the few high- 
 priced practitioners who are able to get ex- 
 travagant fees for it. 
 
 ^ But the one unpardonable objection to remov- 
 able bridgework is that it involves the destruction 
 of pulps ("nerves "). Science having shown the 
 inadvisability of this it is no longer justifiable 
 whenever it can be avoided; as it largely can 
 be with properly constructed bridges. Hence this 
 one fault alone condemns the removable system. 
 <J Now fixed bridgework takes up no more room 
 in the mouth then the natural teeth, and performs 
 the functions of the latter more perfectly than any 
 other method of tooth replacement. It does not 
 cause any of the destruction or annoyance incident 
 to plates, and does not involve devitalization of 
 the pulp as does removable bridgework. As 
 usually made it often fails because it cannot be 
 kept clean and because the attachments bring 
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 eliminated it far excels all other forms of dental 
 restoration — always provided the teeth used as 
 supports are adequate to carry it. 
 <§ The methods which we call the Cady System 
 are designed to overcome the faults of bridgework, 
 while retaining its virtues. Its first principle is to 
 keep away from the gums, both with the crowns 
 which are used as attachments and the dummies 
 which replace lost teeth. The dummies are made 
 with a cleansing space, instead of resting on the 
 gums, and the crowns, instead of extending to the 
 gums, reach only part way and are tightly fitted 
 to the largest diameter of the tooth. If there is 
 decay at the neck a filling is inserted, but by 
 keeping the crowns away from this point the pos- 
 sibility of gum irritation is absolutely avoided. 
 <& We do not devitalize, except where there is 
 exposure of the pulp, or where a post must be 
 inserted in the canal. In posterior teeth, which 
 are harder to reach with the brush, we use "wash," 
 or bar bridges, instead of the ordinary dummies; 
 these are even easier to clean than the natural 
 teeth. In anterior teeth we use detachable porce- 
 lain facings which can be replaced in a few 
 moments, when necessary, without injury to the \ 
 balance of the work. 
 
 <I The advantages of my system may be briefly 
 summed up as follows: it avoids disease of the i 
 gums by keeping away from them, and it is as j 
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easily cleaned as the natural teeth — more so in 
 most cases. 
 
 <J But like all bridgework the Cady System is not 
 adapted to every condition, and its successful 
 application demands judgment and experience. 
 The remaining teeth in the jaw must be properly 
 placed and sufficiently firm, or I cannot recom- 
 mend it. Only personal examination can determine 
 this. If you are interested I shall be glad to show 
 you specimens of this work and tell you whether 
 or not it is advisable in your particular case. 
 ^ The cost is $15.00 per tooth, except in difficult 
 or unusual cases, where a special price will be 
 quoted in advance. 
 
 
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 CLEANING teeth is as important as any work 
 in dentistry. Yet is has been neglected more 
 than any other branch, partly because den- 
 tists do not like the work, and partly because 
 patients, not realizing its importance, complain 
 when charged what it is worth. The average person 
 coming to a dental office says; "Two or three 
 dollars is enough to pay for cleaning teeth," and 
 the average dentist gives such person two or three 
 dollars' worth of his time, and lets it go at that; 
 though the teeth are not half cleaned. The patient 
 I is satisfied because the front teeth look clean, not 
 knowing that the most necessary part of the work 
 has been neglected, because it is the most difficult 
 — and that this neglect will some day lead to 
 pyorrhea and decay. 
 
 (& How does a dentist excuse this neglect? Well, he 
 knows it would, in many cases, take several hours 
 | of disagreeable labor on his part to scale, polish 
 i and clean the teeth properly. He cannot afford to 
 spend this time unless he is properly paid for it, 
 because he can earn as much, or more, on work he 
 likes better, from the next patient. 
 ^ Of course he should talk to patients; educate 
 them in the importance of cleaning teeth thor- 
 
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 oughly. But that also takes time, which he cannot 
 afford to spend unless he is paid for it. His time is 
 money and he has wasted hours of it, more than 
 once, in fruitlessly trying to make skeptical pa- 
 tients realize the value of this work. 
 fl So it came about that conscientious dentists, 
 who wanted to render proper service and yet pro- 
 tect their own interests, trained young women to 
 do the work, and the talking. It was found they 
 did this, after correct instruction, better than the 
 dentists themselves, as it requires patience and 
 thoroughness, rather than a high degree of skill. 
 
 IBut they had no legal right to work in the mouth 
 and their employment, even in cleaning teeth, 
 was in violation of the law. Consequently the next 
 
 I step was the establishment of schools to do the 
 training systematically, and a law entitling gradu- 
 ates to practise their specialty legally. ^ This 
 ' explains why we have today an entirely new 
 ! specialty in dentistry, and why the cleaning of 
 teeth, in up-to-date dental offices, is scientifically 
 t performed by dental hygienists. 
 
 <I In 1917 the Legislature of the State of New York 
 : enacted an amendment to the dental law, authoriz- 
 ' ing dentists to employ dental hygienists, and pre- 
 | scribing strict legal requirements for women 
 
 I who desired to study and practise this special- 
 ty. Thoroughly alive to the importance of the 
 I subject I lost no time, after the new law was 
 
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 passed, in installing a licensed graduate of the 
 School of Oral Hygiene of Columbia University. 
 <J The creed of dental hygiene is that cleanliness 
 
 j is the salvation of the teeth and gums, and that 
 healthy gums and sound teeth influence the 
 general physical condition. Statistics show that 
 
 i seventy-two men, women and children die every 
 day in the United States from diseases that 
 
 j might be prevented; and it is now known that 
 
 * many of these preventable diseases have their 
 
 f origin in an unhygienic condition of the mouth 
 and teeth. When the public learn the value of 
 dental hygiene, therefore, not only will decay of 
 
 : the teeth and disease of the gums be less, but 
 
 ; systemic disease will be greatly reduced. 
 <I Pyorrhea alveolaris, or Riggs' disease of the 
 gums, is the cause of many serious bodily ailments 
 
 ; and is much more prevalent than is generally sup- 
 posed, especially in the incipent stage. It is easily 
 
 ; checked by dental hygiene, if taken in time; but 
 if neglected it often becomes impossible to cure. 
 Many people have this disease, and do not know 
 
 ; it until too late. They think their teeth are clean, 
 when as a matter of fact they are loaded with 
 bacterial deposits, especially at the gums, which 
 are slowly but surely establishing an incurable 
 condition. This is particularly true of posterior 
 
 - teeth, which are difficult to reach with the brush. 
 
 j Hence, the work of the dental hygienist is not only 
 
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 to clean teeth, but to point out to patients the 
 spots they neglect, and instruct them how to keep 
 these spots clean. If oral hygiene accomplished '■ 
 nothing more than teaching the effective use of j 
 brush, pick and floss, it would be worth all it \ 
 
 costs. But the actual saving in dental bills, 
 not to mention doctors' bills, far exceeds this. 
 <I In the old way a dentist cleaned teeth merely to ! 
 make them look clean, by quickly going over the I 
 exposed surfaces only. The new way reaches all 
 surfaces, including the unexposed and difficult of 
 access. It improves appearance, but accomplishes j 
 something vastly more important. 
 ^ The old way with scraper and brush wheel, rare- 
 ly took over half an hour. The new way with special I 
 appliances and methods often takes several hours. 
 <I Naturally there is great variation in the time j 
 necessary to thoroughly clean teeth in different ; 
 mouths; hard and extensive accretions taking 
 much longer than mere stains or soft deposits. 
 Even where the deposits are slight it is seldom that I 
 a set of teeth can be properly cleaned in less than 
 one hour; where they are heavy the work requires j 
 many hours and several sittings. This being the j 
 case, there is but one rational way to charge for ■ 
 such work, and that is for the time it consumes. 
 Our fee is $5.00 per hour. 
 
j 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 QEtye (gentle Srt 
 of $mntenes& 
 
 "Do your work as well as you can, and be kind." 
 
 C& HE indifference of dentists generally to the 
 pain they inflict is hard to understand. It is 
 ^* due many times to lack of sympathy, perhaps 
 because the dentist's own teeth are not sensitive. 
 It is sometimes due to haste; the application of 
 one remedy after another (frequently necessary) 
 consumes time. It often comes from ignorance ; 
 dental colleges, strangely enough, teach little on 
 the subject and it is seldom discussed in dental 
 societies s*» s«* 
 
 *I Whatever the cause, the fact remains that most ; 
 dentists are careless about the pain their patients 
 suffer. "A sharp bur and steady hand are the best 
 obtundents," they say. I know better than this for 
 my own teeth are extremely sensitive. Operations 
 in my mouth have always been a serious affair, 
 both for me and for the dentist who served me; 
 and no patient ever came into my office with more 
 fear than I have felt, or was served with more 
 reluctance by my operators. 
 
 <& The sharp bur and steady hand idea was tried 
 on my teeth when I was a boy, and I shall never 
 
26 The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
 forget it. As a result of that experience I later on 
 
 dreaded work on my teeth so much that I would put 
 | it off for months, though well aware the longer de- 
 | layed the more I would suffer. Naturally, while 
 
 looking forward with dread to the inevitable 
 | operation, I was studying and experimenting to 
 | make it as painless as possible. This accounts, in 
 
 large part, for my early interest in painlessness, 
 
 il and for my efforts, covering a period of thirty 
 years, which have kept me constantly on the 
 alert to save my patients from unnecessary 
 i suffering. 
 
 9 Three factors contribute to painlessness in my 
 ! office : specialization ; an effective obtunding sys- 
 I tern ; the desire to avoid pain. 
 I *l In the last analysis painless operations on teeth 
 j depend largely on the heart of the operator. If he 
 | is careless, hasty, or unsympathetic, he will inflict 
 j pain even when adequate means are at hand to 
 | avert it. Hence patience, gentleness, and an 
 J earnest desire to avoid pain are essential. I will not 
 j allow any man to work on my teeth who does not 
 j possess these qualities, and I demand as much for 
 j my patients as I do for myself. For this reason 
 j members of my staff are selected not only for skill, 
 j but for sympathy and carefulness, especially in 
 ! dealing with nervous and sensitive patients. 
 | <J Time is another important factor in dentistry, 
 j for it is an impossibility to work hastily on sensitive 
 
The X-ray in Dentistry 27 
 
 teeth without inflicting pain. Therefore it is 
 one of the invariable rules of my office to take all 
 the time necessary to avoid pain. This is something 
 many dentists who practise alone think they can- 
 not afford, especially when there is a patient 
 waiting in the reception room. But with my large 
 staff we can care for the patient in the reception 
 room without neglecting the one in the chair. 
 9 A great man once said; " Get your happiness 
 out of your work or you will never know what real 
 happiness is." 
 
 ^ Happiness in our work accounts for the cheer- 
 ful atmosphere of this office, which is so apparent 
 as to be frequently remarked by patients. You may 
 think this has nothing to do with making our work 
 painless, but I assure you it has. 
 <I If you ever sat in the chair of a grouchy, or 
 unsympathetic dentist you will know what I 
 mean. 
 
 1 
 
$ut)Ucitp 
 
 "Z &now w/m£ pleasure is, for 
 I have done good work." 
 
 Of N 1889 when I was a high-priced "ethical " 
 I practitioner in Chicago, doing all work with 
 ^» my own hands, I became dissatisfied with 
 this method of practice and resolved to improve it. 
 1& I had a good general knowledge of my pro- 
 fession. But like most men I was actually skillful 
 in only one branch, and knew I could render better 
 service by confining my work to that branch and 
 surrounding myself with men who were skillful in 
 the others. 
 
 <l There was no more hope of making such an 
 innovation successful without advertising, how- 
 ever, than there was of John Wanamaker succeed- 
 ing without it. So I had to decide whether I would 
 continue to serve clients in an inferior way, or 
 resign my membership in dental societies and 
 ignore the code of ethics, in order to do a larger 
 and better work. Against the advice of my pro- 
 fessional brethren I chose the latter course. 
 i^ That was a long time ago, (I have been in this 
 office twenty-six years) and since then my Chi- 
 Scago dream has materialized in the largest, high- 
 class dental practice in existence. Because nothing 
 
The X-ray in Dentistry 29 
 
 succeeds like success, perhaps, many of my early 
 critics now admit that a professional man can use 
 printers' ink without sacrificing his ideals. Some 
 day they will perceive that it does n't matter so 
 much how a dentist attracts patients to his office 
 as how he treats them when they are there. 
 <I I protest against the rules of dental societies 
 because they are selfish and made for the benefit 
 of members only. If they aimed to protect the 
 public, as they should, honesty, sobriety and skill 
 would be the test of membership, instead of non-ad- 
 vertising. <& I know that many advertising dentists 
 lack a sense of professional obligation — so do many 
 " ethical " dentists, for that matter. But dental 
 societies do not discriminate between the good and 
 the bad. They class all advertisers as " Painless 
 Parkers," which is as foolish as to class all non- 
 advertisers with Professor Black. The fact of a 
 dentist's advertising does not prove his incom- 
 petency any more than membership in a dental 
 society proves he is competent. 
 ^ Then, too, the rule against advertising is incon- 
 sistent because many " ethical " dentists get all 
 the free advertising they can, and go to great 
 lengths to do so. What they object to is advertising 
 that is honestly bought and paid for. A society 
 member remains in good standing as long as he 
 refrains from advertising of this kind, no matter 
 how wretched his work, or his character, may be, 
 
30 The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
 while a man of the highest attainments, who 
 uses publicity in a manner not sanctioned 
 by the code, is anathematized. Let the societies 
 cast out the beam from their own eye before they 
 attempt to extract the mote from their brother's. 
 9 Did you read " The Kaiser as I Knew Him " 
 which attracted so much favorable comment in 
 1918? Would you believe that the gifted American 
 author, a dentist, was refused admission to a 
 New York dental society because of it? By 
 fourteen years of honorable achievement he had 
 become famous throughout the world. His fame 
 indeed was the crime for which this man, who had 
 brought honor to American dentistry, was dis- 
 honored by American dentists when driven out of 
 Germany. He was rejected because they feared his 
 book might aid his wicked design to gain a liveli- 
 hood for himself and family, in competition with 
 the members of the society he desired to join. 
 Honor him for what he had done? Not for an 
 instant! But knock him for what he might do. He 
 was " unethical." 
 
 <I Some years ago several members of this same 
 society attempted to boycott Elbert Hubbard for 
 writing his " Little Journey to a Great Dentist " 
 about me. His reply, in The Philistine of March, 
 1910, is earnestly recommended to the attention 
 of this same jealous coterie,because of its bearing on 
 their contemptible treatment of the Kaiser's dentist. 
 
TTie Z-ra# in Dentistry 31 
 
 <I While I shall continue to practise my profession 
 in the way that seems best to me, without "ethical " 
 dictation, I cannot expect any sensible person to 
 decide a serious question, like the selection of a 
 dentist, on the arguments of advertising alone. 
 Proof of excellence is necessary, indisputable proof; 
 and it is just here that this booklet merits atten- 
 tion. There is not a statement in it which cannot 
 be substantiated, but even if the preceding pages j 
 be taken with the customary grain of salt, the 
 letters which follow, and the prominence of the 
 writers, must compel conviction when I claim to 
 stand in a class by myself. 
 
 ^ I write my own advertisements and enjoy it, and i 
 now having talked with you thus, I shall enjoy 
 talking with you face to face. I make no charge 
 for consultation. 
 
 EDWARD EVERETT CADY, D.D.S., 
 
 Fulton Street, corner Court Square, 
 (opposite Hall of Records) 
 
 Brooklyn-New York. 
 
 COPTBIGHT 1919 
 
 by Edwabd Evebett Cady, D. D. S. 
 

 
 32 The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
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 LETTERS 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It is now a good many years since I began going to you for dentistry. If 
 I had discovered you earlier I would have had less pain. Also I would now 
 have more teeth and more money — for few things are so expensive in the 
 long run as poor dentistry. In your office I have had only excellent and 
 satisfactory work. 
 
 You have never asked or suggested any word of commendation from me, 
 but the brief and simple testimony I now send is justly due you from your 
 satisfied patron. (Rev.) William V. Kelley, D. D. 
 
 Editor, Methodist Review, 150 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 When I put myself in your hands I was an invalid and had neglected my 
 teeth for years. I needed the services of several specialists in your office, 
 but as a result of their gentle and skilful ministrations I am a new man 
 today and entering on a new life. I owe you a debt of gratitude for a mouth- 
 ful of masterpieces of dental skill which have greatly improved my health 
 and increased my strength. 
 
 Any fellow-man may count himself fortunate who gets an appointment 
 with you. (Rev.) David Gregg, 
 
 President Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh; Former Pastor 
 Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Now that my visits to your office are at an end I want to express my 
 appreciation of the service you have done me. 
 
 I went to you prepared to lose my teeth. You have saved them, and the 
 process of salvation was withal so pleasant that I almost regret it is finished. 
 
 If the perfect satisfaction of the patient counts for aught, let me assure 
 you that it exists in (Rev.) John L. Belfobd, 
 
 Church of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lord, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Give me as reference in connection with the excellent, and it seems to 
 me almost unparalleled service, that you render those who are fortunate 
 enough to receive your treatment. 
 
 (Rev.) Jodson Swift, D. D., 
 Gen. Secretary American Tract Society, 101 Park Ave., Manhattan. 
 
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 T/ie Z-ra# zn Dentistry 33 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The work you have done for Mrs. Allen and me has left nothing to be 
 desired. It is still a matter of amazement to me that so great comfort is 
 possible as that which obtains in your nerve-extracting process. It is unique 
 — though not any more so in point of skill than your various other labors 
 in course. (Rev.) Charles J. Allen, 
 
 Pastor, Beecher Memorial Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 This will introduce the Rev. Doctor James M. King, one of our most 
 distinguished clergymen and my personal friend. If you treat him as well 
 as you did me we will both bless you. (Rev.) Philip Gebmond, 
 
 Pastor, Nepperham Heights M. E. Church, Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Enclosed find check for the amount of your bill. 
 
 Please accept my thanks for yourself and your associates for your skilful 
 professional work; for the courteous treatment extended to me by all of the 
 individuals connected with your wonderful dental establishment; and for 
 the reasonable bill you render for the work you have done for me. I am 
 grateful to Doctor Germond for directing me to you. 
 
 Hoping that your praises may in the future be found in many mouths, 
 I am, (Rev.) James M. King, 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, No. 126 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Enclosed find check to cover the amount of your bill, and permit me to 
 say that I never sent a check with greater satisfaction. Before I visited you 
 the mere thought of going to a dentist overcame me with a sort of terror, 
 but each of my visits to your office was a pleasurable disappointment until 
 now I can truthfully say that all fear of dental work has departed from me 
 forever. (Rev.) Charles A. Cbaig, 
 
 St. Joseph's Church, Pacific St. and VanderbiU Ave., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Your institution has unquestionably reached the culmination of the art 
 of dentistry. (Rev.) M. J. Flynn, 
 
 Church of Our Lady of Angels, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 You can certainly count me as a friend of your office. Your entire work 
 for me, including extraction, filling, crowns and bridges, is remembered 
 with pleasure. I gratefully recall more especially the extraction of nerves 
 from several troublesome teeth. Frankly, I dreaded this work, but your 
 expert accomplished it skilfully and painlessly. 
 
 (Rev.) Wm. L. Davidson, 
 Fleet St. M. E. Church, Brooklyn. 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.:— 
 
 The artificial teeth made for me give perfect satisfaction. It is the best 
 platework I ever had, and I desire to thank you for it. 
 
 (Rev.) Thomas J. Fitzgerald, 
 St. Gabriel's Church, New Lots Road and Linden St., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S. : 
 
 It gives me great satisfaction to bear witness to your wonderful skill from 
 my own personal experience. The patience, kindliness, good humor and 
 unfailing courtesy ever manifested by the experts of your staff, added to 
 their marvelous facilities for banishing pain and their surprising mastery 
 of the most delicate operations, made visits to your office a pleasure that 
 could never have been associated with old-time dentistry. 
 
 (Rev.) M. G. Flannery, 
 
 St. Paul's Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The painless extraction of teeth, the rapid removal of nerves, and the 
 comfortable and satisfactory results of bridge-work, under the skilful hands 
 of your specialists, have formed a pleasing revelation to me. 
 
 (Rev.) J. L. Zabriskie, 
 28 Regent Place, Flatbush. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am more than pleased and satisfied with your work and your treatment. 
 
 (Rev.) Jacob W. Loch, 
 German Evangelical Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It is with pleasure that I am recommending you to all my friends. The 
 work you did for me is said to be, ordinarily, very painful, but in my case 
 the pain was almost imperceptible. 
 
 (Rev.) George B. Cox, 
 St. Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish, 29 Vesey St., Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I enclose herewith check for amount of accompanying statement. I am 
 very much satisfied with your treatment, and pleased with the uniform 
 courtesy extended to me in your office. With kindest regards, 
 
 (Rev.) John S. McGoldrick, 
 St. James Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I have been so pleased with the efficient service and courteous treatment 
 given me by yourself and your staff that I consider I am conferring a favor 
 on any sufferers from dental trouble when I recommend them to go to your 
 establishment. (Rev.) D. McAlisteh, 
 
 St. Rose of Lima Rectory, Parkville, L. I. 
 
The X-ray in Dentistry 35 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 The last work done for me in your office was so durable that it is still in 
 
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 ± ne last worK aone tor me in your omce was so auraDie max it is sun in 
 perfect condition after many months of terrible illness and the taking of much 
 strong medicine. I am happily surprised to find that my teeth require no more 
 filling after such a trying ordeal, and tell my friends that I owe much to the 
 skill and thoroughness of your specialists. 
 
 My mouth speaks volumes, in more ways than one, for the excellence of 
 your dentistry. (Rev.) Horace Pobteb, 
 
 Pastor, Watchung Avenue Church, Montclair, N. J. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 In sending you the enclosed check I do not entirely discharge my obli- 
 gation, for the service you have rendered me is far beyond a monetary value. 
 Permit me to thank you for the privilege of meeting such skilled and 
 accomplished gentlemen as those to whom you entrusted my case. I grate- 
 fully remember their care and extreme consideration, and I congratulate 
 you on having such experts as your assistants. 
 
 (Rev.) J. Wesley Johnston, 
 
 Lawrence, L. I. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Enclosed please find check for $150, amount of bill for services to my wife. 
 
 I take pleasure in adding that the impossible, as I supposed, bridgework 
 
 done for me by your specialists two years ago, is as staunch as ever, and I 
 
 have been chewing like a boy ever since. Believing in " passing along " a 
 
 good thing I would advise all who have dental troubles to visit you. 
 
 (Rev.) J. Fobd Sutton, 
 255 West 95th St., Mahnattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 After a long and varied experience with many dentists, it affords me 
 pleasure to heartily commend the work done in your office, which has been 
 thoroughly tested by myself and three members of my family. I consider 
 not only the high grade of professional skill, which is characteristic of your 
 establishment, as worthy of mention, but also the thoughtful care and kindly 
 consideration for the comfort of your patrons. 
 
 (Rev.) S. S. Utteb, 
 1067 Prospect PL, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I visited your office, two or three years ago, only when I could no longer 
 delay it, because like so many others I had the usual dread of going to a 
 dentist. But today I thankfully bear witness to the skill, courtesy and sym- 
 pathy of yourself and your able assistants which made my experience in 
 your hands one of pleasure instead of pain. I gladly recommend you and your 
 associates to any person in search of expert dentistry, and especially those 
 with sensitive teeth. (Rev.) James T. McEnttbe, 
 
 St. Teresa' 8 Rectory, 1U Henry Street, Manhattan. 
 
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 36 The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S. : 
 
 In various cities I have had considerable dental work done by skilled 
 dentists. When I moved to Brooklyn I read one of your booklets and was 
 prejudiced because you were an " advertiser." I knew a better way to select 
 my dentist, i.e., consult my friends. I did so and asked several friends what 
 dentist they patronized and recommended. They surprised me by saying 
 " Dr. Cady." You have now done considerable and difficult work for me 
 satisfactorily, painlessly and economically, and I take pleasure in commend- 
 ing you and your able assistants. 
 
 (Rev.) Jason Noble Pierce, 
 Pastor, Puritan Congregational Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S. : 
 
 It was certainly a kind providence that brought me to your office for treat- 
 ment after long suffering with what I supposed was neuralgia. You went right 
 to the " root ' of the matter and you and your skilled assistants have given 
 me the relief I had sought in vain for seven weeks. I can not speak too highly 
 of the patience, skill and thoroughness with which the work was accom- 
 plished. I wish I had gone to you earlier. 
 
 (Rev.) Charles S. Wing, 
 Presiding Elder, Methodist Episcopal Church, b7 Brevoort Place, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 My wife and I neglected our teeth for years, owing to a dread of the dental 
 chair which amounted to veritable nightmare. Now the bugbear has been 
 scotched, thanks to the painless methods practised in your office and the 
 scientific manner of applying them. Henceforward we anticipate no pain, 
 but rather pleasure at your nands, so confident are we that the promises 
 made in your prospectus will be faithfully kept. The bridgework which you 
 made for each of us is giving perfect satisfaction, and I cheerfully testify 
 that the result is beyond our expectations. 
 
 (Rev.) J. E. Parker, 
 The Original Five Points Mission, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Your treatment of my case has been most satisfactory and all dread of 
 the dentist's chair removed. (Rev.) Robert Rogers, 
 
 Church of the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I have had considerable work done at your office in the past five years, 
 and it is with pleasure that I add my name to the list of those who have 
 
 I derived great benefit from your services. 
 (Rev.) Leon M. Nelson, 
 Rabbi, Temple Israel, Brooklyn 
 
The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It gives me great pleasure to be of the number of those who commend 
 you to the public. I was pleased with your services and am glad to be referred 
 to in your favor. (Rev.) Edwabd P. Ingebsoll, D.D. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, 
 American Bible Society, Bible House, Astor Place, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am very much pleased to say that your work for me has proven most 
 satisfactory. It was a pleasure to go to your office, as I found your 
 specialists not only expert, but kind and gentle. 
 
 (Rev.) Edwabd J. Donovan, 
 St. Peter' 8 Rectory, 117 Warren Street, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady. D.D.S.: 
 
 It is a sincere pleasure to commend the skillful and painless work of your 
 specialists. I must confess I first went to your office with fear and trembling, 
 but the kind and expert treatment I received in every department made my 
 subsequent visits a real pleasure. Pain was practically eliminated. I am more 
 than pleased with the work done for me and gladly commend you to any 
 one in need of a dentist's skill and care. 
 
 (Rev.) A. J. Debbtshibe, 
 Grace Church Rectory, 1907 Vyse Avenue, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I feel that your services have been of great value to me. Indeed at the 
 outset I did not think it possible that you could bridge over so many diffi- 
 culties. Your work has fulfilled your promises and surpassed my expectations. 
 
 (Rev.) M. A. Fitzgebald, 
 St. Peter's Rectory, 117 Warren Street, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I beg to assure you of my perfect satisfaction with the work which I had 
 done by your specialists. Courteous treatment and skillful practice are 
 marked characteristics of your office. 
 
 (Rev.) Wm. McGinnis, 
 St. Bridget's Rectory, Westbury, N. Y. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The Cady System bridge-work which you put in my mouth was like a 
 creative act, the producing of something from nothing, for the condition 
 of my teeth when I went to you seemed hopeless. You have done me a great 
 service and I thank you for it. Also I thank your estimable staff of specialists 
 for their painstaking attention in the performance of their work even to the 
 minutest details. The skill, carefulness and kindness which prevail in your 
 office made my visits there a source of pleasure. 
 
 (Rev.) James O'Mahont, 
 St. Teresa's Church, HI Henry Street, Manhattan. 
 
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 38 The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Myself and family have received at your office the best dental service j 
 we ever had. The work has been so satisfactory that I gladly recommend ' 
 you to any of my friends and to the public at large. 
 
 (Rev.) Mabtin O. Leplet, 
 Eighteenth Street Af. E. Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 I 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I found the work of your staff so painless that the time spent in your 
 office was a rest cure. My teeth were restored both in appearance and use- 
 fulness, though they were in a discouraging condition when I went to you. 
 
 For years I have been having trouble in the lymphatic glands of my neck 
 and after two severe surgical operations a third was promised, when it would 
 be convenient to my strength. This trouble disappeared after your work was 
 done. 
 
 I certainly wish I had gone to you long ago. 
 
 (Rev.) J. F. W. Kitzmeyeh, 
 St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church, Coney Island, L. I. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Both Mrs. Hess and myself are very glad to say excellent as to your work. 
 You have certainly made dentistry a fine art. Your progressiveness in a 
 number of ways, especially in that of having the work of the different 
 branches done by specialists, deserves to be widely known. 
 
 I congratulate you upon your ideals and high standard of work. 
 
 (Rev.) Wm. Milton Hess, 
 Trinity Congregational Church, 
 176th Street and Washington Avenue, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I enclose check in settlement of your bill, with thanks for the excellent 
 work you have performed for me and my wife during the last sixteen years. 
 It was a friend of mine who recommended me to you then and I am doing 
 the same to my friends now. I commend you and your specialists not only 
 for the highest grade of professional skill in dentistry, but also for the uniform 
 courtesy and kindness with which your patrons are treated. 
 
 (Rev.) Stefano L. Testa, 
 Franklin Avenue Italian Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady. D.D.S.: 
 
 Permit me to thank you for the comfort you have given me. The bridge- 
 work you made is entirely satisfactory, much more so than I thought possible, 
 owing to the poor condition of my teeth. I am grateful to you and your staff 
 of specialists for your skill, unfailing courtesy and kindness. 
 
 (Rev.) Stephen H. Gbeen, 
 The Rectory, Seatucket, L. I., N. Y. 
 
The X-ray in Dentistry 39 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I have always counted myself fortunate in my dental friends, but in your 
 rare advisory wisdom and the expert skill of the specialists who compose your 
 staff, I have found a new and grateful revelation. God bless you all! 
 
 You are kind and wise to make known your accomplishments towards 
 painlessness. It would be wrong to suppress them. My family shared my 
 experience of your skill and most heartily join in this expression of sincere 
 appreciation. 
 
 (Rev.) Edwin Sidney Williams, 
 19 Huntington Road, Port Washington, L. I., N. Y. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 You and your co-workers have certainly improved on the ordinary way 
 of practising dentistry. Cheerful rooms, polite attendants and above all 
 competent and careful operators change dread into pleasure. 
 Five members of my family can testify to the value of vour services. 
 
 (Rev.) Wm. W. Clark, 
 Minister (retired) of the Reformed Church, 532 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am giving you and your staff what is simply due from me in saying I 
 might travel the wide world over and not get better dental work than has 
 been done for me in your office. 
 
 As you are aware I needed extensive repairs and am therefore entitled to 
 speak emphatically. (Rev.) John A. Wade, 
 
 Rector, Church of St. John the Evangelist, 22 i Waverly Place, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Both Mrs. Schmidt and I find great pleasure in being numbered among 
 the many who have been under your care and who can conscientiously 
 recommend you to all those desiring efficient and comparatively painless 
 dental service. We beg to assure you of our perfect satisfaction with the 
 work done by your skilled specialists. (Rev.) Geo. F. Schmidt, 
 
 Pastor, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Four years ago my health was seriously impaired by the condition of my 
 teeth and I went to you for treatment. The result has far exceeded my 
 expectation. My health is much improved, my digestion is normal, my voice 
 is clearer in public speaking and I have much greater Joy in life. As I am 
 in my eighty-third year these facts, I think, speak much in favor of the 
 scientific service rendered by yourself and staff of specialists. 
 
 (Rev.) Chas. S. Wightman, 
 Pastor, Oyster Bay Baptist Church, Oyster Bay, L. I. 
 
40 The X-ray in Dentistry 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am thankful to report that the work done for me and for several of my 
 patients whom I referred to you has been highly satisfactory. One of the 
 best features, according to my observations, is your manner of laying out 
 the work in advance. 
 
 The courtesy of yourself and all connected with your establishment is 
 gratefully appreciated. 
 
 B. G. Clabk, M. D., 
 266 West 94th Street, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I enclose check to balance account, but I still owe you gratitude. 
 
 J. R. Parsons, 
 145 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The skill of your staff of specialists commands my gratitude. Their work 
 
 in my mouth was not only skillfully done but its effect is highly artistic. 
 
 Moreover they showed the greatest carefulness and sympathy and succeeded 
 
 in performing the most difficult operations with entire absence of pain. > 
 
 I never go to your office now with fear. That vanished after my first visit. 
 
 Habby Branning, 
 1828 Sedgwick Ave., Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: . 
 
 Perhaps it may be a satisfaction to you to know that you have contributed 
 a great deal to my happiness, in adding so much to the appearance and use- 
 fulness of my teeth. 
 
 It has been a comfort to have the benefit of your advice and the skilled 
 and careful workmanship of your specialists. 
 
 Janette Baldwin, M. D. 
 284 Quincy Street, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The extensive work by your specialists was not only the best dental service 
 I ever received, but it was accomplished in the most gentle and painless 
 manner I ever experienced in a dental chair. I expect to patronize you as 
 long as I live within fifteen hundred miles of your office, and I assure you 
 it is a pleasure to testify to the splendid ability of yourself and your entire 
 staff. Chas. H. Bbown, 
 
 President, Tampa & Gulf Coast Railroad, Tampa, Fla. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 My family and I have been coming to your for dental work for years, 
 and have been treated with consummate efficiency. My dental appoint- 
 ments became pleasurable through the skillful and gentle treatment or your 
 staff. Geo. B. Goodwin, 
 
 1385 Broadway, Brooklyn 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Since I am a firm believer in the advertising maxim which says: " If you 
 are pleased with our goods tell others: if not pleased tell us," I am glad to 
 say publicly that I have been better satisfied with the dentistry of your 
 specialists than with that of any general practitioner by whom I have been 
 treated. Allow me to commend especially your inlay work. 
 
 Benj. B. Kekpbick, 
 Asst. Prof, of History, Columbia University, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I often make the assertion that work done by you is remarkable for its 
 durability, as my experience of twelve years conclusively proves. I might 
 give you a tip, doctor, do not do your work quite so well, then your patients 
 will be obliged to visit your office more frequently. 
 
 J. S. MacAbthub, 
 Manager, Metropolitan Branch, Brooklyn Union Gat Co. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The dental service which I have received at your establishment has been 
 eminently satisfactory, and although at first I doubted whether your system 
 would be as agreeable as that of the old-fashioned dentist who does all his 
 work himself, I found that the plan of assigning each special department 
 of the work to a specialist in that department was a distinct improvement. 
 What you did for me was done better than any similar work I have had done. 
 
 William B. Howland, 
 President, " The Independent," 119 W. iOth St., Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I take pleasure in saying that the work you have done for me and for my 
 family has been very satisfactory. I may add that during the period of 
 twenty-four years that I have known you I have come in contact with 
 many who have employed you and they have all spoken in the highest 
 terms of your work. Julian D. Faibchild, 
 
 President, Kings County Trust Co., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am not only pleased with the character of the work you have done for 
 me in the past, but am especially gratified to find that my teeth need less 
 and less dentistry each year, due to the care and advice of your office 
 
 Dabwin J. Mesebole, 
 Attorney-at-law, 188 Montague St., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 You may use my name as a most enthusiastic " Cady-ite " (if you will 
 pardon the coining of this word). It is difficult to properly express my satis- 
 faction with your professional services during the past several years. 
 
 H. H. Scabs, 
 Highland Avenue, Jamaica, N. Y 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am so much pleased with the work you did for me that I have spoken 
 of the efficiency of your staff to several friends who have taken advantage 
 of the recommendation, and were in turn well pleased with the result. This 
 could also be said of the work which you have done for Mrs. Pangborn. 
 
 The courteous, sanitary, scientific methods of your practice can not do 
 otherwise than merit the broadest success, a generous amount of which yon 
 have already realized. Thomas W. Pangborn, 
 
 Thos. W. Pangborn Co., Jersey City, N. J 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I wish to thank you for the kind and considerate treatment accorded 
 Mrs. Bergen and myself and to congratulate you on the successful manner 
 in which you handled Mrs. Bergen's case. It took five years of coaxing to 
 get her to visit a dentist, and it was only after I had explained from my own 
 experience how little fear she need have that I prevailed upon her to visit 
 you. The results have justified the effort and we are both thankful to you 
 and your assistants for your valuable services. 
 
 G. A. Bergen, 
 50 Church Street, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The work you did for me was most satisfactory, and the skill and work- 
 manship could not be bettered. The fact that one could have nerves killed 
 or removed in a few moments without particular pain was a revelation, 
 and a thing I did not believe possible until operated upon in your office. I 
 have no hesitation in most highly recommending to you any one in need 
 of the best and most modern methods at the hands of a dentist. 
 
 Alvah Miller, 
 52 Vanderbilt Ave., Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Specialization in your office ha9 undoubtedly developed extraordinary 
 skill in your operators, and this, together with your special appliances and 
 methods, is accountable for the absence of pain in connection with your work. 
 
 In addition to this, the constant sympathy and courtesy evinced by every 
 member of your staff take away fear of the dental chair, and make a visit to 
 your office one of pleasure, in many respects, and not of dread. 
 
 My experience and the experience of my family has left such a pleasant 
 impression that I am glad to assist in extending the good work you are doing 
 by recommending you. A. G. Calder, 
 
 WO Eighth St. Brooklyn 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The dental work done for myself and members of my family in your office 
 during the past twenty years has been eminently satisfactory. 
 
 E. G. Martin, 
 Auditor, Brooklyn "Daily Eagle " 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I desire to say that your specialists gave me the most intelligent and 
 skillful treatment I ever received from a dentist. I only wish I had known 
 of you before for I am sure you would have saved me a great deal of suf- 
 fering. I look upon you as a past-master in your profession and wish every 
 one in Greater New York might know of your wonderful establishment. 
 
 John W. Crawford, 
 83 Beekman St., Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It gives me distinct pleasure to express my hearty appreciation of the 
 manner in which I have been treated for many years in your office. Cheerful 
 and courteous attention has been my unfailing experience, while modern 
 appliances and methods did away with the pain. The prompt manner in 
 which the work is done proves a boon to a busy man. To you and all the 
 members of your staff I add my thanks. 
 
 Hermann de Seldinq, 
 217 Broadway, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Between twelve and thirteen years ago you did a large amount of dental 
 work for me consisting of gold fillings, crowns and bridge-work. It was so 
 well done that I have had nothing but comfort with my teeth ever since, 
 with no further expense in all this time. I have recommended many people 
 to you in the past and expect to do so hereafter. 
 
 William Harkness, 
 Vice-President, Kings County Trust Co., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It will be a new experience for me to assume the character of a deuta 
 exhibit in the case, but I certainly can express conscientiously my entire 
 satisfaction with the excellent work in your splendidly organized establish- 
 ment. Norman S. Dike, 
 Judge of County Court, Kings County, N. Y 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I have had much experience with good dentists, but your organization 
 has been a revelation to me and I cannot refrain from tendering my admiring 
 respects and congratulations. Albert Rosa Parsons, 
 
 109 East liih Street, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I have been a patient of yours for many years, and having had time and 
 opportunity to judge of the value of your services, I gladly recommend you 
 to any one in search of first-class dentistry. I recently made a trip from 
 Paris especially to see you professionally. 
 
 C. E. Donnellon, 
 Vice-President, D. & M. Chauncey Real Estate Co., Brooklyn. 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Between professional men appreciation s grateful, possibly because of 
 its rareness. Hence these lines. I am pleased with your very commendable 
 system and profoundly conscious of a satisfactory working dental apparatus. 
 
 Though Dame Nature may be never equaled, she is still susceptible of 
 blandishments. I congratulate you upon your ability to coerce a recalcitrant 
 tooth, and commend the facility with which a whited sepulchre of a mouth 
 may be transformed into a thing of utility and wholes omeness. 
 
 George G. Van Mater, M. D., 
 682 Gre<m$ Avenue, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I would compliment you on the rare discretion with which you select your 
 assistants. I never knew dentists could be such pleasant people. I expect 
 them to know their business since I know you run a first-class establishment. 
 But your[associates are more than good dentists. They are gracious, good- 
 natured and intelligent ladies and gentlemen. They can tell me what I want 
 ito know about the particular operation in hand, and they are always willing 
 to do so. H. V. Kaltemrorh, 
 
 Assistant Managing Editor, Brooklyn "Daily Eagle." 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Add my name to those who are pleased with your services. I expect to 
 have more work done at your office and Mrs. Creighton is planning also to 
 come. John B. Creighton, 
 
 Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 On behalf of myself, my wife and my nieces I wish to say that it is a real 
 pleasure for any of us to visit you professionally. During the years we have 
 been going to your office nearly all the members of your large staff have 
 worked for us. They have given such universal satisfaction that we are glad 
 to tell our friends of the skillful and kindly treatment received at their 
 hands, and thus help along this wonderfully good work of yours all we can. 
 
 Chas. D. Pollen, 
 60 Broad Street, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 As an extremely well satisfied patron of yours it gives me great pleasure 
 to recommend you to all who desire the maximum of skill combined with 
 reasonable charges and kindly attention. George R. Dutton, 
 
 Public School No. 6b, Queens. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The work you have done for myself and family covering a period of more 
 than fourteen years, has been uniformly satisfactory. 
 
 Wilfred P. Beattie, 
 Field & Beattie (Inc.), Engravers and Electrolypers, 67 Fulton St., Manhattan. 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I take pleasure in expressing my appreciation of the very careful and 
 efficient dental work you have done for me. I had neglected my teeth and went 
 to you discouraged regarding them. But the skill of your specialists overcame 
 all difficulties. R. H. Ixgebsoll, 
 
 IngersoU Watches, S15 Fourth Atenut, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The extensive bridge-work you have done for me has proven very satis- 
 factory. I do not hesitate at any and all times to advise any one wanting 
 dental attention to, if possible, engage your very valuable services. 
 
 Jebbt A. Webnbebg, 
 Arbuckle Building, Brooklyn 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Most I have appreciated the good advice given to me by you as to when 
 my teeth have needed attention and the amount and character of the work 
 required. Advice of this kind, that saves the patron expense, is not too easily 
 obtained. Robert H. Eldeb, 
 
 115 Broadway, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.3.: 
 
 During the past four or five years you have done considerable work for 
 both Mrs. P»rter and myself, and it has all been entirely to our satisfaction. 
 We have taken pleasure in commending you and your corps of specialists 
 to others, feeling that in so doing we were rendering our friends a service. 
 
 Wm. F. Pobteb, 
 Public School No. 62, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I desire to express my appreciation of the excellent work you have done 
 for my family and for myself. It has been my habit for several years to advise 
 my friends to bring their dental troubles to you, and in every case they have 
 expressed great satisfaction and thanked me for the advice. 
 
 H. C. Speab, 
 Spear & Company, Woodhaven, L. I. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The skill of your staff of specialists is a revelation. They attended to 
 every tooth I have, replaced those that were missing, extracted several 
 " nerves," and did all this without letting me suffer pain. 
 
 I welcome the opportunity to express my thanks and appreciation for 
 their excellent work, and consider, as a duty, the recommendation of your 
 office to any one who needs dental service. 
 
 Wm. J. WlSCHMANN, 
 
 90-100 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn. 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am glad to have the opportunity to express to you my entire satis- 
 faction with the treatment that my teeth have received at your hands, 
 and I assure you that I shall call upon you again when anything further 
 is required to be done to them. 
 
 For painstaking attention, absolute cleanliness, courtesy and skill, I can 
 most heartily recommend your very complete and comfortable establishment. 
 
 J. M. Rider, 
 kk Cedar Street, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Your organization is splendidly equipped for serving the public gently 
 and skillfully. My family as well as myself are indebted to you for the very 
 able and satisfactory manner with which you have served us for years. 
 
 George Weiderman, 
 191 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It cau not be too widely known that you have perfected the science of 
 dentistry, so that in your hands it is a painless and efficient service for 
 •uffering humanity. It is a pleasure to say this, for my family and myself, 
 after several years' experience of your wonderful skill. 
 
 John A. Tennant, 
 Editor, The Photo-Miniature, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am much pleased with the very efficient treatment received from your- 
 self and specialists, and the numerous friends I have directed to you are all 
 of one accord in praise of the work you did for them. 
 
 W. W. Geddeb, 
 Superintendent, Lamport & Holt Line, Pier 8, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Sixteen years ago your establishment was recommended to me by .a 
 friend. Your specialists have since done a great variety of work in con- 
 nection with my teeth, all of which has been very satisfactory to me. I 
 attribute this entirely to your plan of having specialists for each branch 
 of the work. A. Eilerb, 
 
 120 Broadway, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 My family and I wish to express to you our hearty appreciation of the 
 •ervices you have rendered us during the past twenty -four years. We have 
 patronized your office exclusively during that time and our experience 
 prompts us to highly recommend your system of "Dentistry by Specialists." 
 
 Jerome E. Bates, 
 198 Church St., Manhattan. 
 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Your courteous favor of recent date was a harbinger of pleasant recol- 
 lections to me. It recalled vividly my first visit to your establishment filled 
 as it was with delightful surprises, for until that time I had remained skep- 
 tical and unconvinced concerning painless dentistry. 
 
 Your establishment, a dental symphony, and your methods, skillfull 
 kind, painless, were revelations to me. The splendid condition of my teeth 
 today amply attests your superior ability in your chosen profession. 
 
 It has been well said that " Dentistry requires the eye of the lapidary, 
 the skill of a mechanic, the taste of an artist, the nerve of a surgeon, and 
 the sympathies of a friend." That you and all your staffpossess these requi- 
 sites is my experience. Wm. G. Coopeb, 
 
 Vice-Free., Frederick Loeser & Co., Inc., Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 The dental work done at your establishment for my family for many 
 years has been most excellent, and it is always a pleasure to refer our friends 
 to you. Chas. H. Potteb, 
 
 h2 Whitehall St., Manhattan 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 It is a pleasure when customers come into the Riker Drug Stores 
 and ask us to recommend a dentist, to be conscientiously able to refer 
 them to you. 
 
 My experience, and the experience of my family, with your methods- 
 has been highly satisfactory. The work your specialists did in my mouth 
 twelve years ago has remained in absolutely perfect condition up to this time. 
 The efficient manner in which I have been able to masticate food since the 
 work was done has enabled me to laugh at old age, which the condition of 
 my stomach prior to that time led me to think was fast approaching. 
 
 W. C. Bolton, 
 i56 Fulton St., Brooklyn 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 During the twenty years I have lived in New York, all my denta work 
 has been done by you, and has given the utmost satisfaction. 
 
 Henby J. Gielow, 
 
 52 Broadway, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cayd, D.D.S.: 
 
 It gives me pleasure to express my sincere appreciation of the thorough 
 and scientific work done for me while a patient in your care. I regard your 
 organization as unique, and I believe your system of specialization secures 
 the very highest results in dental practice. 
 
 CHAB. F. TtJCKEB, 
 
 505 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan' 
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 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 Since you began looking after my teeth I have had absolute denta com- 
 fort. Also, I have spoken on the public platform more and better than I 
 
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 ever did before, I know how to care for my teeth in the best possible manner, 
 and I do- That, and my dislike of being hurt, explain why I am a patient 
 of yours. The unkind things I sometimes say about doctors do not apply 
 to you, for I am ever your grateful, 
 
 Elbert Hubiurd, 
 The Bayer of ters, East Aurora, N. Y. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 When I first consulted you my teeth were in such deplorable condition 
 that you frankly informed me the work would be difficult and perhaps not 
 entirely satisfactory, but that you would do the best you could under the 
 circumstances. 
 
 When the work was finished the improvement in my mouth seemed more 
 like a miracle than the result of human ingenuity. 
 
 The great success you have achieved is due largely, of course, to the 
 superior skill of your specialists. But I shall always remember with grati- 
 tude the kindness, gentleness and sympathy which accompanied this skill 
 and shall gladly recommend you to my friends. A. C. Haqeman, 
 
 Cashier, Queens County Savings Bank, Flushing, N. Y. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am pleased to say that the work of your specialists has always given 
 me and the members of my family, as well as friends whom I have sent to 
 you, entire satisfaction. W. K. Clevebley, 
 
 2nd Vice-Pres., Seaboard National Bank, Manhattan. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I am pleased to add my testimonial for the good work done at your dental 
 establishment for myself and family during the past twelve years. 
 
 A. C. Hare, 
 Cashier, The Brooklyn Savings Bank, Brooklyn. 
 
 Edward Everett Cady, D.D.S.: 
 
 I have found the work of your specialists thoroughly scientific, sanitary, 
 expeditious and painless. I did not believe in painless and thorough dentistry, 
 combined, before I went to you. But now I go to your office as cheerfully as 
 I goto mine, and without a qualm. 
 
 Inez Milholland, 
 [115 Broadway, Manhattan. 
 
 I regret that increase of reading matter has crowded out a great many 
 valued testimonials from my 48-page limit. I apologize to the kind friends 
 whose pleasant letters of appreciation are omitted, with the assurance that 
 these letters are highly prized and are preserved with the hope of future 
 publication. 
 
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