St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-17
MINNESOTA S. D. SOCIETY.
First Annual Assembly OF an Imp0r-
tant Though Small Profession
al Association.
Practical Discussions of Theory and Practice
In Dentistry.
MORNING SESSION.

Inc attenQance upon tne HrSJ annual neetlnS
of the Minnesota State Dental society, at Sher-
man hall, was very limited, when the meeting
was called to order by the president, ii. M. Reid,
at 1880 yesterday morning, and as the secretary,
II. L. Cruttenden, was not present, DIR. Knight
was selected TO act as temporary secretary. A
few minutes later the regular secretary arrived
when DR.. Knight resigned his position to DR..
Cruttenden, who took his seat and proceeded to
read the minutes of the meeting held last year
organizing the society, and as there were no cor
rections to be made they were approved.
DR.. Bailey of Minneapolis, made motion
which was adopted, that DR.. Jennings, of Cleve-
land; Fogg, of Peoria, H.. and Newing, of st.
Louis, be made honorary members.
This being all there was to attend to i'll the
afternoon trains arrived with additional mem
bers, the meeting adjourned till p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock
motion prevailed for the appointment of
Mr. Lyons. of Minneapolis, as official stenograph-
of the meeting
DR.. Weeks, Minneapolis introduced DR.. E. W.
Blair as the representative of the newspaper, the
Archi0eS Of Dentistry, published by E. W.
Chambers & Co., of Philadelphia, and stated that
the proceedings of the meeting would be printed
in full in that paper.
DR.. Blair took the floor and made q plea for
subscriptions for the Archi0es. He made figures
for certain number of bound copies containing
the proceedings
The chair stated that late comers might come
to the front at any time and pay their dues and
sign the constitution.
A motion by Mr.. Bailey prevailed to accept DR..
Blar's proposition regarding the publication of
the minutes
The committee on membership reported the
names Of the following new members: DR.. Hall,
OF st. Paul; DR.. Whiting, Northfeld; DR.. Brown,
of ST. Paul; DIR. Marden, New Ulm; DR.. Jenni-
son, Minneapolis. They were duly admitted and
invited to come forward and pay their dues.
DIR. j. E. Miller, of st. Peter, then took the
floor and read a paper on Regulating. He
opened with some remarks regarding the strik-
ing and similar irregularities in the teeth Of a
family of five children, He then described meth
ods of treatment in producing regularity, and
closed with the request that. gentlemen present
express their opinions as to the permanency of
an operation done in the manner put forth in the
paper. Models were passed showing cases be-
fore and after treatment.
DR.. Knight, of Minneapolis, described a case
of irregularity produced by thumb sucking, in
keel of boat.
DIR. Goodrich, of St. Paul, spoke Of case Of
thumb sucking at White Bear lake, in which the
face was terribly disfgured.
DIR. Little, of st. Paul, spoke of an old lady
under his treatment having striking irregularities
but he could do nothing on account Of her great
age.
DR.. Smith, of Minneapolis, asked if when the
lower teeth closed the upper the irregularity
could be remedied.
DR.. Miller thought in that case it would be
necessary to change the action of the jaw
DIR. Brown, Of St. Paul, said when children
breathed through their mouth Irregularities were
sometimes produced by this Notwithstanding
ITSELF
Moved and carried that DR.. s. B. Lawrence, of
New York city, be made an honorary member of
the society
DR.. Clements, of Faribault, explained by
model his method of producing regularity in front
incisors. He used what is known as the inclined
plane.
Dr. Weeks said the trouble in this was that the
patient would not bite upon the inclined plane.
Dr. Smith had had the same trouble. He told
of a case in which he had produced regularity in
and using another method.
DR.. Knight urged that the piano spring method
was better than the rubber or gold band methods.
He asked If the rubber method did not produce
irritation.
Dr. Miller had had two cases exactly alike. In
one there was so much irritation that the rubber
had to be removed and in the other there was no
Inconvenience whatever.
Dr Clements Thought the state of the DatientS
health would have something to do with the irri
tatiOn.
Dr. Goodrich thought the plate was usually
entirely unnecessary,
DR.. Clements said people were operated upon
too young very often. He thought child should
not be treated who was under fourteen years OF
age. In his opinion not enough was trusted to
nature.
Dr. Lawrence had moved the teeth by placing
piece OF hickory wood between them after sup
per and taking it out in the morning.
Dr. Reid agreed with DR.. Clements that nature
should be allowed to do its work first.
DIR. Jennings, Of Cleveland, said the tooth
should be fully formed before being operated
upon. He said brass was a. good band as gold
and did not make the mouth sore. He gave DR..
French, of Pittsburg, the credit Of originating
the brass band.
Drs. Edwards, Jacobs and Call also expressed
themselves
On motion the subject was passed,
Dr. Cruttenden, OF Mortified, followed with
paper on "Artioulation.' He said everything
depended on the will of the patient, as the den
tist could have no control over the formers mus
cles. He then explained the intricacies of artc-
ulation to his brother dentists at great length,
using diagrams to make clear his written argu-
ments.
Dr. Clements rose to congratulate DR.. Crutten-
den on his able, interesting and instructive pa
per. He said articulation was one of the most
difficult things in dentistry.
In answer to question by DR.. Murray, of
Minneapolis, DR.. Cruttenden made some further
explanation OF apparatus used.
telegram was received from the Wisconsin
State Dental society, "a follows:
MILwAU6Es, Wis, July 16.-Dr II. NJ Reid,
president, Sherman hail: The Wisconsin State
Dental society in convention assembled send
greeting to our newly reorgsnlzed sister society
in Minnesota, with best wishes for its greatest
possible usefulness.
". F. LEWIS,
CAAs. c. CaITTENDEN,
Committee