Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-08-09
fRANSPlANTING HUMAN TEETH.
a Curious Experiment in Dental Surgery.
Origin of the Process.

a Curious Experiment in Dental Surgery.
Origin of the Process.
The other evening | was asked by DIR.
J. ii. Baxter, chief medical purveyor Of
the United States army, 10 dine at his
house omeet DIR. Younger, the celebrated
dentist of San Francisco, who was the
sensation of the dental section of the
congress. A dozen or more eminent dem
fists were at the dinner, including DIR.
Scott, the surgeon at West Point. n. Y,
and doctors from Detroit, Albany, Mon.
treal, etc. Briefly, DIR. Younger is able
to take a tooth, which may have been ex-
tracted months ago, and plant it, so TO
speak, in the mouth Of another person.
where, in the course of n few months, II
becomes firm, and looks like and serves
the purpose of new tooth. He has per-
formed this operation 200 times with but
twenty failures. He had n transplanted
tooth in the upper jaw, right hand side,
of his own mouth. He offered 10 allow
the doctors of the congress TO extract this
tooth in public and examine its condition
if they wished 10 do so. lie had ne or
two patients with him, notably : negro
man, who had had the operati, n per-
formed successfully.
Five is the largest number of nrw teeth
DR.. Younger had ever put into one mouth.
Ii is necessary to the success of the oper-
alton that there shall be enough Of the
bony process in which the teeth grow
naturally. called the alveolar. still exist
ing rs a part Of the jaw bone, into which
q new socket for the tooth can lie drilled.
The tooth must also be a healthy one,
with at least half Of its proper covering.
called the perlsementum. existing, Ii is
thought that life remains in a healthy
tooth for many months after it has been
taken out of the mouth. DIR. Younger
fills the nerve channel of the tooth
with gutta percha, which has the merit
Of not aching. He then drills the new
socket, puts the tooth in and fastens down
the gum. The tooth is tied in for a few
weeks. when 10. 10 is a part Of the APP
paratus Of the mouth, as much as if it
lad been there or ginally. This naturally
seems astounding. and the facts caused a
great sensation among the dentists of the
congress. DIR. Younger transplanted q
number Of teetl in public while in Wash
ington, EnglislI and other dentists volun-
teering To permit hun to do 80. The
operation is not very painful, and can be
lone in less tltan five minutes. There is
nothing now TO hinder lovers from ex-
changing teeth. Charlie can give up one
Of his molars, and Mary can swap an eye
tooth.
In appearance DIR. Younger resembles
a German, and the infection of his speech
Is very like a Germans. But he tells me
he is a native of Chill, South America.
He accidentally discovered the fact that
teeth can he successfully tranSplanted. A
gear or W ago a woman a III into his
Office in San Francisco who had had a
.ooth knocked out of her mouth.
doctor" she said, Il want you TO
put this tooth back where it belongs"
Nonsense! 1t cannot be done. 1t
would do no good"
''But | insist that you do it."
1T would fall u The mouth would
reject it. 1t is now the same as a foreign
substance
.'No matter. doctor; / wish to have the
tooth put back"
Il I'm too busy today" said DIR.
Younger. thinking to dissuade her. The
woman went away.
Il got To thinking the matter over
said DR.. Younger TO me. land at last |
determined TO try the experiment. 1t
could do no harm. | sent for the woman
the next day and said: If you stil want
me to put that tooth in l will do 81 to
please YOU | cleaned it, cleaned out
the socket, and Iut it back, fastening
down the gum. by George. lnamonth
the tooth wa as sound and solid IN her
mouth US the rest, and it has remained 20
TO this day. She eats with 1.-THE same as
with her other teeth and knows no DIFF
ference. That was the beginning If my
teeth transplnting. The fact is now IL
well established as any in medical or
dental science.
After dinner at DIR. BaXtcr's the dem
fists met in the parlor and discussed the
matter further. All went away con-
wheel. and resolved TO try the new pro-
cess.-Fuller Walker in Kansas City
Journal.