Modern Dentistry (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Modern Dentistry (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Head and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Dentistry Dentistry up to the last ten years made little or no advance along the lines of Health Conservation. For two thousand years dentistry has been devising collectors of filth and spreaders of general disease. The Roman, who strapped loose necrotic teeth to firm teeth with gold bands, defied the laws of health and cleanliness no more than many of our bridge workers of the present day. The dentist of the seventh century, in putting in gold fillings, to all intents and purposes used the same method as that of the soft-gold worker of the twentieth century. Dentistry, owing to the teachings of Pasteur, has at last awakened to its great responsibility. Henceforth no appliance, however beautiful externally, will be tolerated unless it can be kept absolutely clean, and no repair of a tooth or root will be countenanced unless it conforms to the standards of scientific mouth hygiene. Fillings, crowns, and bridges are no longer to be considered mere objects of art for personal adornment or mechanical trituration of food, they must primarily be hygienic. Through the elimination of mouth infection, and of much con sequent systemic disease, dentistry must take a place in the fore most ranks of preventive medicine. Dentists henceforth must be trained along medical lines, and any contention that has existed in the past between the physician and dentist must disappear in a common endeavor to free the community at large from the deadly effects of mouth infection. For this disease is now recognized as an almost universal one that every year kills its victims directly or indirectly by the hundreds of thousands, and it is the author's hope that this book will be of some service in its cure and prevention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.