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Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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uth,where the conditions are worse. This pa-tient was referred to me to see if 1 couldpossibly save these two loose molars. Agreat many dentists had seen the case,andall claimed that the teeth were so loosethat nothing could be done with them.They were almost ready to drop out oftheir sockets : it is hard to realize how lit-tle retention they had. You will notice thaian attempt has been made to open intothe buccal and lingual canals of theseteeth, which was unsuccessful on accountof the filling up of the canals with sec-ondary matter—but it is useless to treat 304 THE DENTAL COSMOS. such cases unless the canals are cleanedand filled to the ends. The next slide.Fig. 11, shows these two molars after thebuccal canals have been properly filled.There was no attention paid to the lin- teeth, the simple removal of the pulpsand reproducing the lost lingual root,was not all that was necessary. It wasnecessary, as the preceding gentlemanhas said, to hold the teeth fixed. T am Fig. 9. Fig. 10.
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gual roots in either of these teeth, because opposed to the use of bands for that pur-bo th the lingual roots had lost all of pose, for reasons which I will not entertheir attachment and had become necrotic into now. The method used here wasappendages which had to be amputated, to run a platino-iridium wire into theAfter removing the roots I replaced them porcelain root that was placed in positionby porcelain substitutes, as I have de- in the second molar, running it up acrossscribed in some of my papers in years the occlusal surface and into the pulpgone by. The mere treatment of these cavity of the first molar. The same con- NATIONAL DENTAL ASSOCIATION. dition was observed in the first molar.A platino-iridium wire in the porcelainroot was carried across the occlusal sur-face and into the pulp-cavity of thesecond molar. All this was done at oneoperation, and the wires were cementedinto place by means of amalgam. Theillustration. Fig. 12, shows the finishedoperation. It shows the porc

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