A system of oral surgery : being a treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, face, teeth, and associate parts / by James E. Garretson.

  • Garretson, James Edmund, 1828-1895.
Date:
1884
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    alone ODe particular side of the dental arch,—the unused organs being soon enveloped in tartarized debris, and the gums becoming turgid and debased. This debasement is shown also in those who live on food which demands but little trituration. The practice indulged in by many persons of breaking the harder shell nuts with the teeth is most reprehensible, cracking and splitting the enamel, and thus exposing the more susceptible underlying dentine,—or, even where such accidents do not occur, exciting through shock a species of chronic inflam- mation which lowers the resistive force of the organs. Dental operations, as justly remarked by Dr. J. Taft in his work on Opera- tive Dentistry, performed at an improper time and in an improper manner, the vitality of the teeth being thus impaired, or a diseased condition being established, are to be esteemed as exciting causes of caries. Often from in- judicious use of the file extensive deterioration of the dentine supervenes, which is sometimes followed by death of the tooth and by disease of con- tiguous parts. Another cause enumerated in that volume is sudden transition from one extreme of temperature to another. Cleanliness is an essential to a healthy denture. Teeth should be cleansed after every meal; to this end a tooth pick—always to be made of wood—is passed through the interspaces, and the mouth afterwards rinsed with water, or water to which has been added a few drops of alcohol or cologne. As a dentifrice, to be used when required,—which will, most likely, be once each day at least,—the following combination may be employed : JJ.—Ossis sepias pulveris, ^ss; Cretse praeparata, 3'j j Coralli albi pulveris, £ss; Iridis Florentines pulveris, §j ; Carbonis ligni pulveris, 3j ; Lapidis puraioei pulveris, 3'j» Olei limonis, q. 8. In a mouth self-cleansing, however, where there is little tendency to the accumulation and retention of debris, it would not, of course, be found neces- sary to have such excess of cutting ingredients. A modification of the pre- scription might therefore be made : ]J.—Cretaj priuparatna, 3'j j Ossis sepiuj pulveris, 588; Iridis Florentine pulveris, §j ; Cinchonas rubral pulveris, 3j j Saponis albi pulveris, gij. M. In the treatment of any case of dental caries which may present itself, the careful practitioner first endeavors to satisfy himself of the causes, constitu- tional and local, influencing the diseased condition. Of the constitutional causes, all, as must be inferred, affect the integrity of the teeth which are deterio-