The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Pleasing Result of the Improved Use
of Electricity.


New York Herald.
OF all the grudges we owe to Mother Eve
none Is more serious than that which
springs from aching teeth. But eIec,
as a medium of nearly. If not quite, alb
solute relief to the patient.
StomatologistS, as the progressive dental
surgeons are now called, have for several
years used with great advantage an electric
lamp Tor the examination OF the mouth.
improved. so that now, the size of a hazel
nut, it has an intense Illuminating power.
the gum and detect the slightest infamma-
ton about the roots of the teeth. By this
invention the slightest deviation from
This does away with the use Of those
the lamp is a mere nothing in the line of
discovery when compared with the dental
advancement made through the agency of
formidably scientific name implies the in
trinsically simple but new process by
which medical solutions are made to pene-
trate the gum tissue by means of a galvanic
current.
In practicing the new method, the cleo
in such relation to the locality affected by
disease that the current, in passing from
particular spot. This subtle power is un-
der complete control of the operator, and
are r p snf i regulated cd by ea a scien adfIsnfy
arranged switchboard, which connects with
the wires of the battery.
The galVanic current is also best in facial
paralysis where the muscles do not respond
or reach the Parable current; In general
a rubber handle, to the end Of which are
attached two rubber cups, each about the
s size OF ua a three-eent piece: These hold
drug to be used.
Now, for example. just before extract
one on either side Of the e1 root, and iin in a
few moments the current will have con-
veyed the vegetable anodyne held in the
be pa1nleSSly removed.
The dentist using the new method must
be thoroughly schooled In this new applica-
ton of electricity; he must not be satisfied
with knowing how to apply it to the dis
covery OF disease, or, as in days gone by,
the tooth at the moment of extraction,
thinking that the current acts as an
When We consider that the patient in
such a case received the full force of a
storage battery as it passed from the for
ceps through his entire body, we do not
wonder that the earlier experiments in
electro-dentistry failed to win general favor.
After mastering the science of electricity
foundry observe the temperament of his
patient. whether bilious. nervous, sanguine-
GUS or lymphatic. He must understand the
law of correlation between these four tenn
peraments. This is all essential. as the
regulated by the physical characteristic
Of each patient, as well as his physical con-
01t1On. 4s.
Treatment under the new electrical
method leaves no more electricity in the
patients body than was there before the
application. If the natural electricity of
the body be increased or diminished by
the new treatment it is indirectly affected
and as the result of a properly regulated
current.
Electricy has a direct and wholesome
action on the circulation. The calibre of
the blood vessels is at first narrowed by
electrical stimulation. then dilated with the
effect of bringing an increased blood sup
ply to the parts. Nutrition is improved,
and the normal circulation is soon re-estab-
lished. Electricity has done much for the
world, but in emancipating humanity from
the aches and agonies of dental treatment
it will score it's highest achievement.