The Dental cosmos (1912) (14769050452)

Identifier: dentalcosmos5419whit (find matches)
Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1912 (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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Deposit of salivary calculus beneath the free margin of the gums, with moderate amount ofresulting inflammation and slight pocket formation. Fig. 7.
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Severe inflammation as a result of salivary deposits; extensive pocket formation; greatamounl of pus; teeth extremely loose. This and the preceding illustration show thebeginnings and possible extent of inflammation resulting from salivary deposits. SPIES.—PYORRHEA, ITS CAUSE AND TREATMENT. 991 care from the dentist. But when thisideal arrangement is lost, when the con-tact point is not properly formed, and theembrasures are narrow, food passing thecontact point is not sufficiently dividedfor the interdental papilla to be able todivert it. It crowds down into the inter-dental space, and the effects are dis-astrous. When the dentist is called on to restorean approximal surface of a tooth he can- Fig. 8. * ^^^^^^^ Instruments, to do effective work in the re-moval of deposits, should be so designedthat the cutting edge shall work on thelong axis of the tooth, the blade havingtwo points of contact—the cutting edge andsome portion of the inner surface of theblade, the blade in such rel