Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-12
IMPLANTING TEETH,
New Sockets Made in the Jaw and
the Teeth Inserted.
From the Neeo York Tribune.

painting leelu Is AT leasC 1UJ years Olu.
A new method, however, of putting teeth
where they will do the most good has just
come into the light of day and is being
tested by dentists. 1t is known as i'm
planting. Speaking on this general sub
ject, DR.. Norman w. Kingsley, President
of the Dental Society OF the State of New
York, said:
There are three kinds Of operations
involved in the planting of teeth, and
they are known as replanting. trans
planting and implanung. Replantlng Ia
the operation where the teeth are removed
and replaced in the same mouth and
the same sockets; transplanting consists
In taking the teeth from another mouth
and placing them in sockets from which
the teeth or roots have recently been eX-
tracted; and implantings is the process
OF making new sockets in the solid bone
or where the teeth have long been eX-
tracted and the bone has become solid
and where the teeth from other mouths or
the same mouth are implanted in the solid
bone. Transplanting and replanting are
old methods, one of the earliest successes
In them being that of John Hunter, some
hundred years ago. In his experiments
he found that tooth recently removed
appeared to grow when transferred to the
comb OF cock, and this and similar eX-
perlments led him to conclude that a
tooth would grow in firmly when sur
rounded by living tissues and his success
IN many instances led to the process of
tr2nsplanting teeth. Upon this was
based the plan OF removing bad teeth and
putting in their place fresh teeth obtain
ed from the mouth or another person.
This tooth was placed in the newly made
socket, and in more recent times the tooth
has been removed, cleaned, the pulps re-
moved, one or both, and then the tooth
replaced in the same socket. This latter
is particularly the case where the teeth
have been knocked out by accident or
injury. and they have adhered.
"Implantings is of recent date, and
probably originated with DIR. Younger, of
California. He conceived the idea of
making an entirely new socket in the
solid bone and implanting there tooth
from the same mouth or from that Of an
other person. AS this process is IN lts
experimental stage 1t is not possible to
tell yet how long teeth so implanted will
remain firm in the sockets, but apparent
ly satisfactory results have been
obtained; the teeth lh instances
thus far tried, when manilated
by skilled dentist, have taken
vigorously to their new en-
vironments, and seemingly satisfactory
results have ensued; yet, as SAID, it is
impossible as yet to say how long i'm
planted teeth will remain firm.
"This process is based on the theory
that II the membrane which originally
surrounded the tooth still adheres to it,
although ithas become dried even, il will
be revitalized when the tooth is implanted
in its new socket. Theories, however, are
of little value, in the present stage of the
experiments. Still the fact remains, of
which there is no question, that teeth
have been implanted in these newly-made
sockets, have remained for many month
and appear to have adhered vitality to the
solid tissues surrounding them;
they have so remained for eighteen
months | have seen some cases where
the adhesion has been SO complete that
they would defy an expert to tell which
were the implanted teeth and which were
there originally as shown by the color
and translucency of the teeth and the
hardness of the gum, all of which were
quite that of the original teeth"
On the question whether this process
would be apt to come much in use among
dentists, the doctor said: ''There are
very few men now brave enough to I'M
dertake 1t; but L will say, for the daring
of our profession, that they sometimes
rush in where angels fear to tread, and
in time they will have the hardwood to
undertake anythIng.'
The doctor was asked about the propa-
Bile desire of patients to have other DeO-
pies teeth thus thrust down their throats,
as it were, especially with reference to
possible liberation and the ills attendant
upon the existence OF the tooth. "Oh,
that is in one sense matter OF taste"
was the laughing rejoinder, but a patti
ent who wants a bad tooth supplanted by
a good one, or who wishes an ugly row
Of teeth Strengthened out and finds that
implantiEg is the only hope-saYa by
, long and tedious process with screws
and rubber bands-will not make much
bones of squeamisbness. AS for ulcera-
tiOn and assesses, don't think there is
as much danger of them as In many in
stances where the natural teeth are lett
in the jaw with dead pulps and are filed
improperly. In THESE cases of i'm planting
or transplanting there is really less
danger OF liberation from the fact that
the teeth, being out OF the mouth, can be
thoroughly cleaned and their pulps re-
moved before they are implanted or re-
planted. and if there are any abnormal
deposits upon them these can he removed
and the teeth can then go into the jaw in
perfectly healthy condition, and under
the circumstances nothing injurious is
likely to set in"
The dentist produced a model in plast-
er of paris OF a set of teeth, on which two
teeth stood out prominently from the rest.
disfiguring, as they must have done, the
jaw. within the last three days" said
he, 81 have removed two front teeth
standing out OF line and disfguring
the mouth Ola patient, have made new
sockets and have implanted the teeth in
regular line with the adjoining teeth. In
this case the teeth themselves, the gum
and the bone in which they were placed
where all perfectly healthy. The teeth
were removed while the patient was Un.
der the influence OF nitrous oxide gas, and
while they were out Of the mouth the
pulps OF both teeth were removed and the
cavities filled with gold; In making the
new sockets there was very little pain
experienced by the patient; in cutting
the aiveoiar process there was very little
feeling, nOnervous tissue passing through
1t; for unless you pass beyond the point
which YOU should there is no nervous
tissue 10 be encountered and consequently
there is very little or no pain. But in
cutting the gum and tissues | used CO.
caiue and think that the pain was consId-
erably lessened thereby; at any rate, the
patient suffered as little, il as much, In
this process as the average patient does
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