AN IDEAL DENTAL SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 3

AN IDEAL DENTAL SERVICE.

Remarkable progress has been made in dental -work during ;tbe past; fewyears.- .When one recalls' the crude and dangerous methods of a generation ago, it is a relief'to 'turn to the careful and skilled service of Mr. W- P-. Sommerville, au expert with a ■ host of friends in Wellington. After successfully, managing one of tho best-known 'dental establishments in this city, Mr. Scmmerville has now started practice on this own- account in comfortable, fully-equipped rooms in Molesworth Street, over Barraud and Son, Cheinists. .-..'' ; ■■ '■

■'. An inspection, of the up-to-date appliances in Mr. Somme:ville's parlours gives one a clear idea of the revolutionary, changes in dental methods. In the old days extractions were the rule ■-and a most painful rule, too. Nowadays, . extractions are the final resort. ■Modern dentistry believes that prevention by regular professional attention is better than cure by the forceps.' Mr. Sommerville has both the skill and the. equipment for saving and repairing teeth, and he has a reputation for doing this work most satisfactorily. , Another change that;' 'leaps 'to the eye" is the excellence of present-day artificial teeth. Time,s\vas when "false" teeth were false in appearance as well as in name. But the sets' made by Mr. Sommerville are described as true to nature and as. defying detection. Those who dislike plates will do.well to ask Mr. Soinm'eryille for particulars of liis Bridgbwork;;,which is guaranteed for ten years. ' :"'"'.■ .... Foair'of the-dentist's chair should not deter anyone —even the youngest .or the most sensitive —from.visiting Molesworth Street. Mr. Sommerville's system of painless. extractions is claimed by_ him to be the . safest in the Dominion. Every instrument is thoroughly sterilised. Nurses attend ,to the comfort.of children and ladies.'