The American Dental Institute, Limited.

  • American Dental Institute Ltd.
Date:
[appoximately 1894?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The American Dental Institute, Limited. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    55, St. James’s Street, S.W. 34, Thurloe Square, S.W. 1, Francis Street, Victoria Street, S.W. 50, Finsbury Square, City, E.C Anerley, Dear Sir, Sept. 17th, 1890. Allow me to express my thanks for the treatment I have received at your Institute, and to say that I am more than pleased with the result. Thanking- you also for your kindness in reference to fees, Believe me, Yours faithfully, A. J. S. From the REV. CANON U . . ., . . . ., Cambridge, Dear Sir, March 23rd, 1892. I returned last night from Egypt. I am thankful to say your work is admirable. Yours faithfully, Canon U . . . . E . . . G . . ., S.W., Dr. 4th April, 1891. American Dental Institute, St. James’s, S.W. Dear Doctor,—Two months have now elapsed since you so skilfully operated on my few remaining teeth, and placed twenty-seven useful teeth in the spot where there were none. Your system beats all others hollow. I consider myself a com¬ petent judge, having during eighteen years had no less than three different sets of teeth—all failures. The first were made in Edinburgh with palate and wires attached to other teeth; Liverpool: so, Rodney street. Manchester: io, st. ann’s square. Brighton: 123, king’s road. Bournemouth: the square. Kingston-on-Thames: 25, HIGH STREET. they were never firm or comfortable, and eventually caused to decay the teeth round which the wires were attached. The second were made in London, a suction palate disagreeably large, which took away my sense of taste ; I knew not the flavour of anything, and ate food as if it were all leather. The third was made in Buenos Ayres by an American, but although a vast improvement on the suction principle—light, thin, and neat—yet they had the ungainly habit of becoming displaced at the moment when they ought to have shone resplendent. Your fixed permanent system, the scientific and delicate workmanship, strength combined with utility, and the utter absence of the feeling that you have anything in your mouth, beats everything. I do not even know that they are in my mouth, being a part of the jaw, and I am constantly flattered (sic), to my great amuse¬ ment, as having “so nice, regular, and well-preserved teeth.” I can masticate as if they were my long-lost ones ; this I never could do with the other sets. My sense of taste has now returned, to my great joy, and to the daily fear of my wife, who sees indications of an excess in port and madeira empty bottles. Also, instead of others waiting for me at dinner, I can now keep pace with them, and not make myself conspicuous, thus evading actual hunger, for, on many occasions, I have eaten sparingly rather than bore people. To show forth the especial advantages of your system versus the three old sets : Years ago a horse kicked me in the mouth. Painless dentistry. I lost all one side and some of the front ones. Set No. 1 to masticate with were useless, therefore the molars on the left side had to do the work of twenty years, and gradually gave in. During a skirmsih with LONDON. The originals of all these and many other testimonials can be seen on application.