Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-10
DISEASE COMES
FROM BAD TEETH
DR.. Wright Speaks Before
District Meeting of Okla
homa Dentists.
BAD MOLARS-BAD HEALTH
Most Rheumatism and Much
Heart Trouble Caused by
Unhealthy Mouths.

Because ian ounce of prevention is
worth pound OF cure" tho an old
and hachueyed truism, is as true to-
day rs il was in the days of Poor
Richard, the dentists of the northern
district of the Oklahoma state Medi-
cal society brought down Dr.: l.. II.
Wright Of Milwaukee TO talk to them
on the~HIbject of "ProphylaXis ana
Fyorrhea" at their semannual meet
ing held in Tulsa yesterday. Doctor
wright, who * prophylaXis and py>
sorted TO-" said Doctor Wright, "and
IN the filling of root canals.
The greatest service we can do
cur patients ~ to TRY to prevent
rather than let things escape our at
Sntion until cure must be re-
sorted TO-" said Doctor Wright, and
prevention hinges upon prophylavIs.
Health Depends on Teeth.
Doctor Wight said that the den
tisu had too long allowed the scien-
tine operation of putting the mouth
into healthy condition to be desiS
na.ed as cleaning the teeth and
for this reason the patient had never
corle to regard 1t is a matter of su-
preme Importance, which it was lie
tr-ed upon the dentists the value Of
educating the public to IN under
stand,ns OF the absolute dependence
OK general health upon Il healthy
mo Ii.
Speaking on the subject of Pyor-
rhea, Doctor Wright explained how
this destructive process affected tho
attaC hment Of the teeth, with for
nation of pus oftentimes long before
it is visible to the eye in casual eN-
animation. and urged upon his listen
ers the desirability of being ever Oh
the outlook Cor the scourge
Doctor Wright said that diagnos-
ticiarS were agreeing nowadays that
two-thiyds OF air heart trouble and 90
per cent of the worlds rheumatism
were caused from local infection
either from pyorrhea or abscesse"
teeth. one of the local dentists
Guotod DR. Charles Mayo to the effect
that Is per cent of all the ills he en-
countered was due to Intestinal
troubles and that so per cent of in
t,ytinal troubles were caused by de-
Cgying and unhealthy teeth.
Favors Specialists.
Doctor Wright believes in dental
sc,cial.sts. He says that it Is as i'm
+ T3ss-nle for a dentist 20 he a profound
and highly skillful general prac
Sioner as it was for the old fashioned
family doctor to know all he pre-
tenacd 70 know. He impressed upon
his audience the supreme Importance
OF every dentist either owning or hav-
Ing access to an X-ray machine.
Dealing with the subject of filling
root canals. Doctor Wright digressed
upon the necessity of cleaning and fill
ing out the canal after the nerve had
been killed, thus preventing any
chance of an abscess forming on the
root apex and causing unending trou-
bic such as often resulted from the
out-of-date manner of disposmg- of
these cases by killing the nerve and
letting it so at that.
In this connection Doctor Wright
exhibited what he termed an "ioniza-
ton machine, which electrocuted
(the approved modern method of
painless death for objectionables) the
streptococci and other undesirable
"deuiZens" that inhabit the wilder
ness of the canal zone"
Dentists I'm Army.
After a dinner, given in the banquet
rooms Of the Y. NJ. c. A. last night
Captain G. II. LaRcau gave a short