The San Francisco call., 1896-06-11
MENDING TEETH
At SANTA CRUZ,
Dentists Give a Practical
Demonstration Of New
Methods.
FILL HOLLOW MOLARS.
Denizens of the Seaside Town
Sacrifice Themselves to
Science.
PROGRESS OF a CENTURY.
Modern Methods Compared to the
Primitive Ways of Years
Agone
PROGRESS OF a CENTURY.

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, June 10.-Dr. Rus
sell H. Cool of Oakland tonight stepped
out of the scientific routine that is of great
Importance to the dentists in the State
Convention here and presented an Illus
traIed lecture which was of interest to the
non-professional members of the audience.
The lecture lacked nothing in interest
to the dentists themselves, though shorn
of the technical language that usually
clothes the essays and papers. DR.. Cool
subject of the lecture was, Popular Dis
semination of Dental Knowledge" in
which was shown the duty dentist owed
TO his patrons ana the advantage of pos
sessing sound teeth.
He spoke upon their care as being
part of the training that children should
receive. The stereopticon views presented
were amusing and instructive.
The opening of the days session found
four of the dentists at their chairs with
patients ready to demonstrate some special
feature OF practical dentistry.
The visitors present took great interest
in the clinics. DR.. Alfred Cane of San
Francisco placed large gold filling in a
central incisor, using his newly invented
''rotative phyger." This instrument gives
no shock to the tooth and is noiseess.
The filling was solid and slightly.
DR.. A. F. Merriman Jr. of Oakland
placed similar filling, but much larger.
in the mate to the tooth filled by Dr.. Cane,
but instead of using single plugging in
strL -nent the doctor used at least a half
dozen varieties, including hand, automatic
and engine mallets to demonstrate the
range of possibilities in gold tliing. This
filling was likewise very credita BILE.
DIR. F. G. Pague performed immediate
root filling" in the nerve canal of right
upper lateral incisor, using salal and
paratfine by capillary attraction and gutta-
percha cones. DR.. j. E. Cummings Of San
Francisco commenced clinic in makinga
porcelain jacket crown for an upper in
cisor, and will complete this and other
porcelain work at later sessions.
With the afternoon session there were
presented as applicants for membership:
F. K. Hilliard, San Jose; c. L. Bliss,
Santa Cruz: G. J. Pearce, WatsonvIle.
The trustees reported favorably upon the
following applications received yesterday
and the appllcats were elected to member
ship: T. w. Drullard, F. E. Sawyer, l..
L. White, W. P. English, Emma 7. Read,
Clyde S. Payne, George w. Rodolph, F. d.
Ashworth, W. II. Halsey and NJ. o.
Wyatt.
The clinics of the morning session were
discussed by the convention and became
so interesting that the discussion en-
croached upon the time allowed for the
reading of papers. DR.. Merriman brought
his patient into the convention that his
fellow dentists might see the result of his
demonstration of the restoration of filling
in central incisor by the use of various
mallets.
nro Mofoo uia
DR.. Read discussed the clinics and ex-
pressed pleasure at the result.
The balance of the afternoon was occu-
pied with the reading of papers and mat
ters of routine business. "a Retrospect of
Half Century" was read by DR.. j. l..
Asay of San Jose and attracted many fav-
orable comments from the delegates.
The older men were reminded of the
primitive ways of the early dentists, and
the younger men appreciated the refer
ence to the improvements and and ad-
vancement made by the present-day dent
lists, to whom, the paper stated, was due
to a large extent the present success of
dental science
DIR. De Crow of San Jose, in discussing
the paper, reviewed some of his own expe-
riences, similar to those referred to by DR..
Assay in his paper, which led DR.. Lewis to
declare in jocuar way that DR.. De Crow
had reached the age of 100 years and still
retained an unjarred memory of some
wonderfully ancient events in dental
science.
A motion by DIR. C. L. Goddard of San
Francisco that hereafter each alternate
convention of the State Dental Associa-
ton be held outside of San Francisco was
referred to the committee on resolutions.
This IS the first time the convention has
ever been held outside of San Francisco
and the visit to Santa Cruz seems to have
had the effect of creating a desire with
most of the dentists to combine summer
outing with their annual business.