Gilded Age Denticurists

Denticurists

A firm of London fashionable dentists has introduced the occupation of "denticure,” which in plain English is “the art of cleansing the teeth.” Young women are sent out from the office to visit customers daily, like manicures, and properly and personally, as it would seem from the reading of the account, perform the office of brushing the teeth. So sanguine are the introducers of the new scheme, that they assert that many a gentlewoman who hitherto has been unable to find congenial employment will, in denticure, secure an occupation at once interesting and renumerative.— The New York Times, 1894

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