Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston.

  • Grayston, William Cass.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proved by leaving a hard gold filling too high on an occlusal surface. It is well known what a state the mouth and gums are in during a severe illness, and as the gums and the peridental membrane are inti- mately connected, it becomes merely a question of the spreading of the local inflammation—or un- heal thiness—to the peridental membrane for it in its turn to be affected. It is no uncommon thing for a patient's gums to be red and puffy and bleed easily for some considerable time after recovery from an illness; and there is every probability, in the event of the generally inflamed condition of the mouth spreading to the peridental membrane, that pyorrhoea will be established, unless the vitality of these tissues is sufficient to enable them readily to resume their normal state with the general improve- ment of the patient's health. Deposits of crystals of uric acid on the apices of roots have been put down as the sole cause of the disease. That deposits of some kind do take place at the apices of roots in some cases is certain. That absorption and roughening of the apices of roots also sometimes takes place is true. But that the disease depends on the peridental membrane being attacked in a certain way (not necessarily always the same way), and on the kind of resistance (or the want of it) that nature puts forth (or is able to put forth) in any particular