The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-11
EXHIBITION IN DENTISTRY,
Practical Demonstrations at
the Clinics of the State
Convention.
BAD TEETH STRENGTHENED.
DR.. L. Van Orden Wants the Press
Supervised-NeW Members
and Papers.

The dull monotony of the routine pro-
| ceedings and reading of technical papers
at the State Dental Association Convention
was relieved for three hours yesterday
morning by the clinics, which were given
in the rear corridor of the Acadamy of
| Sciences building. There were some ach-
| ing and empty teeth awaiting the skillful
| application of improved mechanism when
| the dentists arrived.
There was Jap, China boy and an old
| lady sacrificed as victims to the rapid for
ceps of DR.. Charles E. Post of San Fran
| cisco. The Jap and the Chinaman re-
served their courage until the steel instru-
ment entered their mouths, but the opera
tions were performed so quickly that they
| had no use for it and grunted their sur
| prise that pulling teeth by the American
plan was so speedy and painless.
The old lady stepped into the chair
timidly. She had suffered too much to be
possessed of real fear. though she was a
little doubtful of the outcome.
The doctor dropped an aggregated dozen
teeth from the three mouths and turned to
aid DR.. A. II. Morris of Alameda in a more
difficult operation. A young woman whose
face bore the marks of pain from dead and
| dying teeth expressed her readiness to SUBJ
NIT to the removal of eight upper teeth
under treatment of nitrous oxide gas. Dr.
Post applied the gas, the patient fell into
Inconsistencies, and before she could re-
cover DIR. Morris had extracted the teeth,
occupying only about two minutes.
DR.. George w. Cool attracted the great
est share of attention by rapid demon
stration of gold building. The cavity in
the tooth of the patient, Robert Diggs,
had been prepared at the office of the
dentist, and the young man sat through
without suffering the least pain. The
| operation from the view point of the lay
spectators was simple. yet wonderful in
speed and skillfulness. The dentists
| crowded about the chair eager to see every
movement of the operator, who placed
narrow strips of gold leaf in the cavity
and tamped them down with mechanical
operated by foot-treadle. The feature of
the demonstration was the speed and COM
| pleteness of it.
| DR.. Russell II. Cool gave an exhibition
of work that is in progress in the mouth of
| Professor Rollins. On one side of the pa
TENTS mouth there is a bridge of gold sup
| porting four teeth which the dentist had
recently placed there. The other side was
bare of teeth, except an implanted one,
on which it is proposed to hang bridge
of teeth exactly similar to that exhibited.
| This process of implanting tooth in an
empty gum, Dr. Cool explained, is done by
cutting into the bone and placing in the
opening a natural tooth, which in course
| of time grows to become part of the jaw.
DR.. W. ]. Younger gave an interesting
| exhibition of Strengthening crooked teeth
| by means of fine silk thread. The thread
| is drawn about the crooked teeth and then
attached to the others in such manner
as to bring the ugly offenders into place
The trick lies in applying the force and
the elasticity of the thread, which must be
worn by the patient until the irregularity
is cured.
| DR.. A. Cane of San Francisco gave an
exhibition of the Herbst method of gold
| filling, illustrating condensation and adap-
| tation of the gold to the cavity without
| blow. The instrument used is conducted
on the rotative principle backed by spring
| pressure. The serrated point is slightly
turned on the piece of gold that is to be
attached to the mass. The cavity is filed
perfectly and with certainty, and also
| builds any contour with great strength and
! density without danger of breaking down
| the edges or injuring the tooth.
The doctor operated on bogus mouth
| made of plaster of paris in which was i'm
| bedded tooth that can never know
| pang.
During the afternoon session, which
| promised in the beginning thereof to re-
turn to the solemnity Of technical read
inds, DR.. l.. Van Orden threw little spice
in by proposing resolution to require the
| representatives OF the press to submit
| their "copy" to the board of trustees be-
| fore permitting the blue pencil of the
| editors to punctuate it. The doctor was
| trembling with fear that some one of the
members of the association might not
| appear we'll if illustrated. He thought the
efforts of the press 20 educate the people
| in dentistry might be greatly augmented
| by the supervision of the trustees. But
the resolution fell down with only one
| supporting vote given in tone of conf
dence. The doctors desire created good
| deal of comment-upon the doctOr-but
even the voice of the member who sec
onded the resolution was unheard in the
''aye" vote.
| Then they returned to the unexcltlng
| treadmill of routine business.
| Applications for mem bership were read
at the afternoon session from DR.. ]. S.
| Knowlton of San Francisco, DR.. Cecil Cor
win of Oakland, DIR. H. ?. Copsey Of Ukiah
and DIR. Fred E. Sparks of Alameda.
The convention proceeded to the elec-
| ton of candidates whose names were pre-
septed at Tuesdays session. DR.. Walter
J. Taylor of Sacramento, w. l. Wilcox of
| San Francisco, DIR. Paul S. Coke of San
Jose, Dr. Marion Ward Craig of Oakland
and DIR. Ernest f. Schlott were duly elected
| by ballot and signed the roll.
| DR.. Marion Ward Craig, in acknowledge
| ing her election, said she felt as did one of
| the gentlemen who likened himself to
! sponge. But she did not care to go as far
| as did the gentleman, who signified his
| willingness to be squeezed after he had
absorbed some of the ideas to be gathered
from the sessions.
| The following named delegates were
elected to the Pacific Coast Dental Con-
vention of 1897: l.. B. Holmes of Wood
land j. l.. Assay of San Jose, George Nc
Cowan of Ukiah, /. w. Hays Jr. of Grass
Valley, J. A. O. Londburg and ]. o..
Hodgin of San Francisco.
DIR. J. l.. Assay of San Jose read paper
on "Questions on Etiology of Pyorrhoea,"
which was discussed by DR.. Younger briefly
and finally deferred to special time to
allow the members an opportunity to give
more thought to the subject
The report on dental literature read by
DR.. c. L. Goddard was accepted.
The evening session was devoted to bust
ness matters and the presentation and dis
cussion of papers.
The applications for membership of DIR.
n.