The evening times., 1899-06-08
WORK OF DENTAL DELEGATES.
Demonstration. at the Second Days
Session,

Demonstrations at the Second Days
Session.
The second days session of the third
triunion meeting of the District of Colum-
bia Dental Society. the Virginia Associa-
ticn. and the Maryland State Dental Asso
citation, now holding three days con-
vention at the Washington Dental College,
began this morning at $3.50 o'clock and re-
remained in session until after o'clock.
The programme for the day included a
number OF interesting sketches and in
structive clinics. which were held in the
second story of the building. There was
no Formally in opening the meeting. A
number of extra operating chairs were
distributed through the various rooms on
the second floor in which the dentists made
their practical demonstrations. Each ope-
rator brought with him his patient, and
filled and extracted teeth after his own
particular method. II was a severe test of
the ability of an operator as well as upon
the nerves Of the patient, to perform clean
and well finished work surrounded by a
dozen or more critics. 1t Is needless to
say that the work was well done, and that
much profit was derived from the demon
strations The most interesting clinic of
the morning was that Of Il. Ottolengui. OF
New York, who inserted two porcelain I'LL
ings, one by the Jenkins method and an
other using an American porcelain
The two teeth were cleaned and the por
celain prepared by baking, and inserted
within three hours DR.. Ottolengui made
no comment upon the relative value of the
two methods. but, after explaining them
in full and in an impartial manner left
the student to make his choice. William
L. Fish. Of Newark. N. j.. also made an
interesting demonstration Of the use of
serrated gold for masticating surfaces on
caps and bridges. DR.. W. W. Evans Of
this city. gave an instructive exhibition OF
prosthetic work in celluloid.
Other Washington dentists who gave
clinics this morning were: W. n. Cogan,
en- general work; II. b. Noble. on the de-
monstration CT the Jackson system OF cor
recting irregularities, and William Donnei-
ly. on the uses of eucaine. S. c. Penning-
ton. OF Baltimore, painlessiy extracted e
number OF teeth with the use OF Dr. Cor
don Finney's local anaesthetic Ashweil
c. Brewer. also of Baltimore demonstrat-
ed his original method of open-faced
crown work for cuspids and bicuspids.
making porcelain and gold bridge. show
ing no gold in front. Joseph Roach told
how he filed teeth with amaIgam. The
method CT making shell crowns was de-
monstrated by James X. Burgess S. De
Leon Avery's clinic was entitled Non
cohesive Filling" II. Phillips worked with
a combination of plaster and modelling
compound for making impressions for par
tial dentures in cases of overlapping teeth.
There were about 100 dentists present
at the clinics, each watching the demon
stration in which he was particularly in
terested. small party of doctors was
made up and visit paid to the Medical
Museum. where the nerves OF the head
and face were studied. The afternoon
session convened at O'Clock. and con-
sisted of the reading and discussion of pa
pers presented by members of the asso-
citation. c. w. Richardson. NJ d.. talked
on the abscess of the antrum, which, with
the general consideration OF the paper,
occupied about an hour.
r. Ottolengui. who added so much to ;he
success of the convention by his demon
s.rations at the morning session. talked
on porcelain work. and again proved him
self valuable acquisition TO the associa-
tion. E. c. Duck. of Baltimore. read pa
per on the use of nitrate of silver in tp-
erative dentistry. The paper read by c. ].
Grieves at last nights session on a case
of progressive dental resorption was also
discussed
Tonight at 6:50 O'Clock the members of
the association will leave for Cabin John
Bridge, where they will be served with an
elaborate banquet. The concluding ses-
sion of the convention will be held toinor-
row morning at the college, when num-
ber of papers will be presented.