Dental Record Odontogram & Ledger NYC C.E. Sheppard Co 1920s Prosthetic
$ 15.84
Description
Dental Record Odontogram & Ledger NYC C.E. Sheppard Co 1920s Prosthetic. This is an original early twentieth-century dental record that combines a patient odontogram with a financial ledger, offering a detailed view of restorative dentistry and billing practices from the 1920s and 1930s. The sheet was manufactured by The C. E. Sheppard Company of New York, a firm known for producing specialized professional office forms, and its printed column headers for date, chart number, time, debit, and credit reflect the standardized record-keeping used in private dental practices of the period. The handwritten entries document a patient’s treatment history spanning from July 11, 1924, through May 27, 1930, and include services such as examination and cleaning, cleaning alone, repair of a plate, an impression estimate, the provision of a full upper plate and repair, and additional cleaning and examination visits. The financial side of the ledger shows debits of ten dollars for routine services and a notably larger charge of two hundred dollars, underlined in red, for the full upper plate and repair work, with corresponding credits recorded on dates including August 8, 1924, January 5, 1927, August 8, 1928, and June 10, 1930. The two-hundred-dollar entry is significant for the period, indicating a substantial investment in prosthetic dental work, and the red underlining suggests it was a figure of particular attention in the practice’s bookkeeping. The item does not include a visible patient or dentist name, but the detailed service descriptions and financial tracking make it a valuable artifact for researchers of early dentistry, dental prosthetics, and the business side of medical practice in the early twentieth century. The odontogram portion of the card is present but appears to contain minimal clinical markings, with the primary documentary value lying in the treatment and payment ledger. Condition is consistent with age and storage; the card has been folded along original lines and may be shipped folded, and it shows slight brittleness toward the edges along with general toning, edge wear, and minor creasing. This is a genuine piece of medical ephemera from a New York dental practice, of particular interest to collectors of dental history, professional office archives, and named-family or social-history documents from the 1920s. PLEASE NOTE: This item may be shipped according to how it was originally folded.
