Painless Parker

Painless Parker
Born
Edgar R.R. Parker

22 March 1872
Tynemouth Creek, New Brunswick, Canada
Died8 November 1952 (age 80)
San Francisco, California, US
OccupationDentist
SpouseFrances Elizabeth Wolfe Parker (d.1945)
Full page newspaper ad for the West Coast dental practice

Painless Parker (born Edgar R.R. Parker;[1][2] 22 March 1872 – 8 November 1952) was a Canadian-born street dentist[1] described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession" by the American Dental Association.[3] However, "Much of what he championed—patient advocacy, increased access to dental care, and advertising—has come to pass in the U.S."[4]

Parker was born in Tynemouth Creek, New Brunswick, Canada. He studied at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and the Baptist Seminary in St. Martins, New Brunswick, but was expelled from both. He worked as a cook on a ship and as a travelling merchant before deciding to pursue medicine. Finding the costs prohibitive, he instead enrolled at the New York College of Dentistry. While in New York, he began offering his services through door-to-door dentistry, but when the college found out, he was expelled. From there, he went to the Philadelphia Dental College,[2] which would become the Temple University School of Dentistry. He earned his diploma in 1892. He returned to New Brunswick to start work as a dentist. After six weeks without a single patient, he decided to advertise. He hired one of P.T. Barnum's ex-managers to help him take his practice on the road. Parker travelled across Canada before finally settling in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1890s.[5] He created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon while a band played. The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution that he called "hydrocaine" to numb the pain.[2] He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.[4]

At one point, he claimed to have pulled 357 teeth in one day, which he wore on a necklace.[2] He legally changed his first name to "Painless" when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.[1][2] When business thrived, he hired assistants and established a chain dentistry business.[2] In the end, Parker ran 28 West Coast dental offices, employing over 75 dentists, and grossing $3 million per year.[3][6]

Parker is mentioned in the song "Orange Claw Hammer" by musician and poet Captain Beefheart. The Historical Dental Museum at the Temple University School of Dentistry has a display dedicated to Parker, with his necklace of 357 teeth and a large wooden bucket filled to the brim with teeth that he had personally pulled. The bucket of teeth sat by his feet as he lectured the crowds on the importance of dental hygiene.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "The quack street dentists of New York City". Ephemeral New York. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Austin, Donna. "Was He Really Painless? Painless Parker". Cupertino News. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014.
  3. ^ a b Avery, Ron. ""Painless Parker's" Bucket of Teeth". ushistory.org.
  4. ^ a b c Thuras, Dylan; Enemark, Michelle. "Painless Parker's Dental Circus". britannica.com. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  5. ^ SCLANDERS, IAN. "PAINLESS PARKER | Maclean's | DECEMBER 15, 1949". Maclean's | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  6. ^ Today, Dentistry (2022-11-21). "Painless Parker - Where It All Started". Dentistry Today. Retrieved 2024-11-18.

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