The pathology of dental caries / by C. Spence Bate.

  • Bate, C. Spence.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The pathology of dental caries / by C. Spence Bate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Defect in the quantity of salts. Defective proportion of phosphates in re- lation to the carbonate of lime. These several conditions appear to lead to one common result,—decrease of the mineral in pro- portion to the animal constituents of the organ. 30. Imperfectly Developed Dentine.—It is not necessary, for the purpose of demonstrating the theory of dental caries, that we should critically examine the various problems of the development of dentine. It is sufficient for our purpose that we accept the acknowledged facts, that dentine is tubular in its structure, that in a healthy con- dition it is in vital connection with the body, that it is nourished by an imperfectly circulating fluid, and that the tubuli are occupied by membranous fibrilke,* that may not be tubular, but which pro- bably line the walls of the tubuli. 31. Nodular or Areolar Dentine.—The most important departure from the normal character of dentine, as described in Par. 4, is that which is attributed by Tomes to the presence of an areolar tissue permeating the structure, but asserted by some to be the spaces left between the nodules of imperfectly developed tissue. Be the cause of this appearance what it may, there can be little doubt but that it is the result of some abnormal condi- tion of the developing power of the organ. * Tomes, “Manual,” p. 286.