DENTISTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 11578, 14 October 1901, Page 3

DENTISTRY.

Messrs Speechly and Ginders, trading as , the American Dental Company, commenced business on Saturday in tne premises lately occupied by Mr Barrie, opposite the National Bank. Invited to look over their rooms, our representative found them, very nicely renovated by Messrs Dickinson and Griffiths, and the front window has been made an eye-catching invitation to the sufferer from bad or imperfect teeth. The entrance lobby, opening on the street, by its neat appearance, seconds the invitation. The waiting-room is nicely furnished, and supplied with material to relieve the tedium of waiting. An experienced lady attendant arrives from Christchurch today. The operating-room contains an up-to-date dentist's chair, his bureau of endless appliances, dental lathe (that runs on ball bearings), and a large gas-holder, the ' latter, in bright nickel, the most striking object in the room. Refrigerating and' other local anaesthetics are also provided. Attached to the chair is a complex.water apparatus wherein the pressure of "Pareora " serves several useful purposes through • various clever taps and tubes. An overhead light is preferable for dentistry operations, and the operating room possesses the advantage of a skylight, whilst a higher portion of the external building usefully cuts off direct sunlight. The workroom at the rear is fitted up with the necessary apparatus for making " sets " —vulcaniser, lathe, tools and materials. Two skilled mechanics will arrive to-day for this department. Mr Speechly, after learning his art- in Christchurch and the North Island, spent some time in America, studying up-to-date dentistry there, where the art of saving and repairing teeth has made much greater ' advances than in Britain; t .because, fortunately for "the old folks at Home," and still more for the young ones, dentistry is not so much needed in the latter. Mr Ginders has been associated for some years with American dentists ha "Wellington, and is therefore well versed in American methods, which imply the high-water mark of ingenuity in overcoming difficulties. Messrs Speechly and Ginders make a speciality of " crown " and ""bridge" work. The former, it was explained ito us, consists in capping a projecting stump with a new working crown; the latter in extending a masticating stirface over a stumpless gap, and the bridge appears to be a satisfactory substitute for a -rootless •artificial tooth. Mr Ginders will have charge -of the Timaru branch, Mr Speechly -of that at Christchurch, and occasionally it may prove of advantage to patrons that the two branches are connected, as in case of a change of residence, temporary or permanent, unfinished work begun at sme branch can be continued at -fhe other.