Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-23
THE TOOTH PULLERS.
Tennessee Dental Association.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22.-The Tenness ee
Dental Association met at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning ST the dental depot of Her
man & Son. The attendance was not large
when the meeting was opened, but others
came il during the day. The house was
called to order by DR.. Ross, the President,
and opened with prayer by DR.. L. G. CHS
holm. The reading of the minutes of last
meeting was dispensed with. The society
fixed upon the following hours for. opening
the sessions: Morning session 81 o'clock,
afternoon session % o'clock.
The name of DR.. ]. S. King, of Nash
vile, and that of T. j. Holder, of GAllatin,
were presented for membership. Upon
ballot they were unanimously elected.
DR.. Ross read a communication from
Prof. Judd, of st. Louis, expressive of in
terest in the profession of Tennessee, and
regrets for his inability to be present at the
meeting. Similar communications had
been received from other cities.
The Committee of Arrangements reported
that the hotels had very generously agreed
TO entertain the dentists at reduced rates,
and that DR.. Herman had kindly furnished
the place Of meeting.
The Committee on Transportation re-
ported that the officers of the N. & G.. and
n. &N. W. r. r. had agreed to return dele
gates free, over their roads. 1t was thought
that similar arral gements could be effected
with other roads before adjournment.
The report of the Committee on Dental
Chemistry was now called for. DR.. Noel
said be was appointed on that committee,
but had been assigned to that place too re-
Gently to make the investigations he had
hoped to make. Had examined the reports
of committees on this subject for many
years past, and was brought to the conclu-
sion that little progress was being made in
this direction. He spoke of an abrasion of
the teeth, often met with in rheumatic sub
jects as affordiDg an interesting field for in
vestigatioD; causes at work in The wearing
away of the teeth being very obscure and
hard to define. DR.. L. G. Chisholm gave it
as his opinion, that carbonic acid was
the active agent in the production of decay,
Thought II capable of displacing the phos-
phoric acid of the tribasic phosphate of line,
of which tooth structure is largely COM
posed. The subject of abrasion of the
teeth occupied the society up to the hour of
adjournment, many interesting cases being
detailed. A large number of those present
thought the wearing away of the teeth in
those cases due to both mechanical and
chemical causes; and all agreed that it could
be arrested by covering the abrsded sur
faces with gold, Adjourned to meet at 2:SO
o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The So iety again came together at q
o'clock, and were entertained for some time
with a paper on the treatment of exposed
pulps by DR.. j. S. King, of this city. The
paper set forth DR.. Kings method of treat-
ing aching teeth, in which the pulps were
exposed by dec'y, and condemned In strong
terms the practice OF dentalizing such pulps
prior to filing the teeth. After the re- ding
of the paper and before proceeding to its
discussion, DR.. King presented to the socie-
| ty for examination patient in whose
mouth he had treated number of teeth,
and where there remained 6
number vet to be treated. The case also
presented slight irregularity of the front up
per teeth, and he desired an expression o.
opiuion from those present as to the best
mode of proceeding with the case. This
case, together with another presented fol
examination by DR.. Herman, was discussed
at some length. The society was now oc
cupied with the discussion of DR.. King
paper up to the hour of adjournment. DR.
| King was appointed to hold clini; at his
| office at s o'clock this morning, and tbs
society adjourned to meet again at same
| place. at 9.