The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-05-03
SCIENCE APPLIED
TO LOCATE REMOTE TROUBLE
LOCAL DENTISTS SECURE
NEW APPARATUS.

Time was that when a man
in business or the professions
got a new machine or process, the
fact was heralded far and wide and
used for both its advertising posi-
bilities and for the advantage the
machine or process itself gave the
possessor over other members of his
profession. That day has passed II
Is now the man who keeps in touch
with the results of the greatest ad
as taught by research who
feels the necessity for the use Of
such machines.
In hat part OF reconstructiYe ur-
gerry. known as dentistry, haphazard
work obtained up to the last few
years. Previous TO 1890 little ad-
vance had been made over the an
Client methods OF mending faulty
teeth, removing the troublesome
member being about the only Ger
tain method of relieving the patient.
that time. and the profession of
dentistry gained impetus. Previous
to that time filled teeth. bridge
work or crowns, or porcelain teeth
were rare, except i'm the case Of the
rich or at least well to do.
with the more thorough under
standing of the theory Of germs in
pathology, surgeons came TO study
causes of various affections. The re
suits of dental surgery astonished
even the Investigators. 1t was found
and is now generally known, that
many serious diseases result from
faulty teeth or from faulty treatment
of diseased teeth. Rheumatism of
Joints. poor eyes and heart affections
are ofttimes a result, and in Eases
where there are not other apparent
causes, the teeth should be examined.
without thought one might not
see clearly just how faulty or dis
eased teeth could affect the health.
The popular idea is that 1t is only
through faulty mastication. Nothing
IS so far wrong. 1t has its influ-
ence Of course. but that lis not all.
Poisons formed OF pus on the roots
are taken by The circulation TO other
parts. and IL is this that poisons
other organs.
In dentistry there are nearly al
ways some teeth i'm which the nerve
channels are SO small or tortuOus
that the treatment of them is a mat
ter Of the sense or touch or mere
guess work. The necessity for some
thing 10 check the results of their
work was felt by dentists, and they
turned TO R6entgen photography or
photography, With this machine
they remove all doubts of not only
the results of their own work, but
may locate trouble nj the roots OF
apparently sound teeth. A condition
OF pus formation may be found at the
roots of teeth even when the trouble
is not suspected.
Within the past three weeks Or. O..
w. Hanson and Or. W. A. Rothschild
of Madison. have installed such ma
chimes. and which are known as the
Fisher Photograph. The writer was
shown photographs Of tooth eondi-
tions which could not otherwise be
known to the dentist than with the
use Of the machine. In one pus was
found AT the root of a perfectly sound
tooth. Another. the filling did not
reach the end of the root. and was
giving trouble, in another the breach
had gone beyond the end Of the
tooth and finally a breach or similar
tool had broken off within the root.
All these were plainly revealed TO
the surgeon by the use of the ma
chine. when otherwise they would be
found only by tedious and careful
search. and might end in the n
forced extraction Of the tooth.
1t was carefully explained TO the
writer than 1t Is of no o credit to
the modern practitioner TO have n
of these machines than ii is 10 have
a drill. They are on the market and
fill a need. They form n of the
useful tools as part Of the equipment.
Manly dentists have a surgeon of gem
eral practice make their dental and
maxilary photographs. The end is
the same. except that the man who
has one in his office is in a position
TO do the work at his own desire. in
stead OF at another's convenience.
And in no sense are the dentists
using them as advertising features
they have them for just a purpose of
utility, as they would have a new
operating chair or better anesthetic.