Plastics and plastic filling : as pertaining to the filling of all cavities of decay in teeth below medium in structure, and to difficult and inaccessible cavities in teeth of all grades of structure / by J. Foster Flagg.

  • Flagg, J. Foster (Josiah Foster), 1828-1903.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Plastics and plastic filling : as pertaining to the filling of all cavities of decay in teeth below medium in structure, and to difficult and inaccessible cavities in teeth of all grades of structure / by J. Foster Flagg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    This is a comprehensive and well-written book on the subject of which it treats. The author's professional standing and large experience justify the publication of his views with regard to the employment of plastic materials in the treatment of decay occurring in teeth. His remarlis concerning the employment of gold as a stopping in decay of teeth which are below the average development of structure, or in which, by the inaccessible position of the cavity, a perfect gold stopping cannot be insured, are well worthy of careful perusal. The author states emphati- cally that many teeth are lost owing to the injudicious use of gold. Such a statement, coming from one who has been nurtured in the land of' gold stopping,' would scarcely have been made without mature observation and calm reflection. We are certainly much inclined to his views, and are quite in accord with him in maintaining that the chief duty of the dental surgeon should be to preserve the dental tissues, rather than to inquire at how early a date his patient may need those artificial substitutes which at the best are but imitations of their natural predecessors. The work is well arranged and admirably illustrated.—iowdon Lancet. This volume is an octavo, printed on excellent paper, with wide margins, in a good, clear-faced type, and is well and tastefully bound, making altogether a very fine appearance and an exceptionally agreeable book to read. . . . Whatever may be thought of Dr. Flagg's theories or practice, he has evidently made an honest and earnest effort to give the benefit of his experience to the profession. The teaching is so explicit that none need complain that there is any want ot definite- ness in it.—Dental Cosmos, April, 1881. A less courageous man than Dr. Flagg would have hesitated before presenting to the profession a book of this character—not, however, that the character of the bookisbad. Dr. Flagg has taken the plasticbullby the horns, and forced said bovine to the front, and sustained him in that position by a remarkably clear and precisely written volume. . . . If plastic materials are used at all, they should be prepared and inserted in the most precise and careful manner, and Dr. Flagg characteristically shows how this can be done.—Dental Advertiser. Dr. Flagg's treatise has great literary merit. It is logical, forcible, and so clear in its statements that scientific facts, theories, and methods are made plain to unscien- tific readers. But its greatest merit is that it illustrates the second great advance in the progress of dentistry, and that it gives expression to principles and methods of investigation, which, if followed in the future with the same intelligent enthu- siasm, must produce very important results.—Philadelphia Inquirer.