Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . a conversation guide. These they discharge at the heads oftheir visitors indiscriminately, and quite irrespective of whether theyapply to the case in point or not. Your tooth hurt? they enquiresolicitously. Oh, my! Never mind. This is a pleasant Qay fortraveling. I do not want any more. is the sort of salutation withwhich the foreign patient is sometimes greeted. Fortunately, how- 140 THE DENTAL REVIEW. ever, a swollen jaw more or less speaks for itself, and an examinationwill soon show what measures may be necessary to affect relief. T
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . a conversation guide. These they discharge at the heads oftheir visitors indiscriminately, and quite irrespective of whether theyapply to the case in point or not. Your tooth hurt? they enquiresolicitously. Oh, my! Never mind. This is a pleasant Qay fortraveling. I do not want any more. is the sort of salutation withwhich the foreign patient is sometimes greeted. Fortunately, how- 140 THE DENTAL REVIEW. ever, a swollen jaw more or less speaks for itself, and an examinationwill soon show what measures may be necessary to affect relief. The Swiss dentist finds his most remunerative clientele in thevisitors at the big hotels. With a view to securing their practice hesometimes has an understanding with the head waiter, in terms ofwhich that functionary agrees to put in a good word for him when-ever occasion offers, of course receiving a commission on any businessthat thereby results. Another plan much favored takes the form ofdistributing cards and pamphlets drawing attention to his skill. A Dental Office at Chamonie, Under the Shadow of Mont Blanc. broadcast among the hotel guests. Of course a good many arepromptly thrown into the nearest waste-paper baskets, but a propor-tion meet with a better fate. The hotel manager, too, often secondsthese efforts for stimulating business by referring to the matter inthe advertisements of his establishments. Thus, he will draw up anannouncement worded more or less as follows: Hotel high class house. Baths. Mountain view. Golf and dentistry. The charges for dental treatment vary in accordance with theskill of the practitioner, the amount of work to be done, the sup- ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 141 posed status of the patient. The operator himself seems to be thesole judge of the latter, an arrangement that does not always makefor satisfaction. Some dentists, however, have a fixed scale and ad-here to it rigidly. The monetary system of Switzerland is the sameas th
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