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Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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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ommenceto recover from the effects of their oralsepsis as soon as the last tooth has gone.They thus become less liable to malignantdisease. Not all recover, however, byany means, nor is this to be wonderedat. A stomach which has been receivingpus for some fifteen to thirty years isvery frequently permanently damaged.It is beyond repair, and the chronic gas-tritis remains, even though the originalsource of the infection has been removed.These facts explain, I think, why it isthat the two curves become closer to-gether in the last age periods. Themalignant disease developing in oldpeople of 75 and upward is the result, Ithink, not so much of their oral sepsispresent at that time, but of the verymany years of sepsis which have gonebefore. I now propose, commencing at the 798 THE DENTAL COSMOS. 100 <- SO So eo jo 40 00 so 70 / Graph I: A curve showing the percentage of the maximum pyorrheicindex present in the poorer classes at each age period. STEADMAX. PYORRHEA ALVEOLARIS AXD CANCER.
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Gbaph II: The average of the curve in Graph I, and also a curve show-ing the cancer mortality per cent., at each age period, occurring inEngland and Wales during 1905-09. 800 THE DENTAL COSMOS. mouth and proceeding downward, toplace before you some clinical evidencewhich, to my mind, supports my con-tention that oral sepsis predisposes tothe development of cancer in the alimen-tary tract. THE MOUTH. Epulis. The first tumor in this regionto which I wish to call your attentionis that loosely described as an epulis.Every tumor of this nature I have seenhas occurred in close connection witha septic stump or tooth. Such tumorsspring from the chronically inflamedalveolo-dental periosteum. Innocent atfirst, they are very liable to recur, andeventually to become malignant, unlessthoroughly and completely removed, to-gether with the piece of bone to whichthey are attached, and the septic stumpor tooth. Epithelioma of the gum. Dean saysthat these tumors nearly always originatein the neighborhoo

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