The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-09
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Broughton and Bull Streets.

makes the patient realize the truth OF
Burns saying. "Toothache is the hell of
a diseases If this pressure is not In some
way relieved strangulation Of the pulp
takes place. This is popularity called
death of the nerve. The relief from pain
is immediate, but II that dead pulp is not
removed from the interior of the tooth
putrefactive decomposition sets in. the
gases of putrefaction causes Il to swell
up, just as the dead animal lying In the
field swells up. and portions Of this de-
composed or decompOsng pulp are forced
up through the canals that originally car
ried the blood vessels, and this poison
Gus mass is thus elected into the soft
tissues between the tooth and its socket.
II now becomes necessary for this for
egn poison to get out, which IL some
time does by causing blood poisoning and
occasionally the death or the patient,
as was the case a few years ago of a
distinguished Brooklyn clergyman. This,
though. Is very rare. More often Il causes
a swelled face and an abscess, which once
more is often called toothache. though
in this case the tooth is but the remote
cause of pain. At each step In the va
rious natural processes just named re-
lief from pain may be mad in from few
seconds TO few hours. depending upon
the length of time that the disease has
been neglected"
Then 1t is really true that when The
pulp is dead the tooth cannot ache any
more2'
yes. that is true. but If the dead pulp
remains the surrounding parts become
diseased and intensely painful, and vod
cannot distinguish between an aching
tooth and an aching socket.
do teeth that are not decayed ever
ache?"
They may get painful from presence
of tartar on the outside of their roots or
from the presence of dead pulps within
them, caused by some violence"
What is decay of teeth?"
1T is primarily the action Of an acid
upon the tooth's substance. either at
points not protected by the enamel or IN
localities where the enamel is not thic.S
enough to protect the tooth against these
attacks?'
What will prevent it?"
IF teeth could be kept perfectly clean
and clear of all deposits of food or medi-
cines they would rarely, IL ever decay,
hence the more nearly they can be kept
absolutely clean on all four of their sides
and the ends as we'll the more nearly
will they be exempt from decay. Teeth
that are imperfectly formed and are
therefore defective when they come
through the gum could not be kept abso-
lutely clean for particles of food would
be crowded into the crevices In their ends
and elsewhere beyond the power of any
brush 20 remove"
But is food injurious TO the teeth?''
mo. but the remnants Of food. kept
warm and moist as they are in the mouth,
ferment and become acid and that causes
decay to begin"
What, then, would be the best pre-
ventive of decay in the teeth?'
Repairing all defects in the enamel
coating by filling them up, and then thor
ough cleaning after each meal and es-
pecially before going to bed, because all
night long, If particles of food are left
quietly TO ferment they do destructive
work, while IN the daytime each fresh
meal disturbs the decaying portions Of
food and partly removes them"
What did the savages do to preserve
their teeth?"
THE savage man. unless physically ct.
died before maturity. II physically 1T 10
survive his teeth formed very perfect
arches above and below and their contact
Of two marbles side by side, from which
the food was shed by the very process of
mastication, so that he needed neither a
dentist nor a tooth brush"
Are these operations which you haze
suggested necessarily painful"
mo; very few dental operations at tha
present day need be very painful. CO.
caine applied to the gums permits US 10
place sheet rubber or a rubber dam over
the teeth almost without pain, Then when
the cavities that are to be operated upon