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Title: Dental summary.
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Toledo, Ohio : Ransom & Randolph
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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ood, as shown in engravings IV-VI-VIITXIV, are just one or two hundred per cent betterthan the old jacket crown. And when you take into consid-eration that you have only to remove a small amount ofdentin along the gum and a small portion of the enamelin order to restore defective teeth to their normal condition,and at the same time preserving the pulp, it is an achievementworthy the art. The ancients did make bridge work and there is evidencethat they filled teeth with gold and performed an amount ofextraction that is wholly unnecessary today. When the eroded teeth, shown in engravings XA-XI (-III-II-IV-VI-VIII, group XX, are restored, and in additionthe cavities shown in engravings XV-XVI-XVII-XVIII-XIXare considered together with the illustrations in group X,alphabetically arranged from A to Y, is not the title of mypaper justified? Dating as far back as 400 or 600 years before the Chris-tian era, the process of decay in perfectly sound and normal 570 THK D KINTAL SUMMARY c;roup X O
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(B) THE DENTAL SUMMARY 571 tooth structure has caused earnest effort to alleviate distressand restrict decay; and at the present time brings us to thequestion, How much have we accomplished in appliancesor systems of practice that will palliate or cure conditions?At first ;he heroic method of extraction was resorted to.This was barbaric and permissible merely because ignoranceand poverty provided nothing better. The remedy loses noneof its barbarism because continued by too many respectablepractitioners of the present time. Hence the discovery of methods of filling teeth. However, though these methods have accomplished greatgood, yet in view of more recent scientific achievements, muchharm has been done, and like the evil of tooth pulling, throughthe false practice of exaggerated ideals, many comparativelyvaluable processes are exploited to such an extent as to becomeinjurious to health. Consequently, each class of materials,such as amalgam, cement, gutta-percha, gold, porcelain, etc.

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