The tightening of loose teeth : some technical innovations / by Witkowski ; translated from the first German edition by Edgar Neumann and William M. Gabriel.

  • Witkowski.
Date:
1912
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Credit: The tightening of loose teeth : some technical innovations / by Witkowski ; translated from the first German edition by Edgar Neumann and William M. Gabriel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There are a good many dental surgeons who hold that in cases of pyorrhoea alveolaris, when the teeth are very loose, connecting them together with bridge- work steadies them in their sockets, and consequently permits more effective treatment. On the other hand, it is maintained by an equally large, if not greater, number, that the employment of a bridge is quite unjustifiable where the patient’s teeth are loosening. Though, consequently, expert opinion upon the merits of the methods expounded herein by the author is likely to be somewhat varied, it is nevertheless well for every dental surgeon to be acquainted therewith, as with every device, if only for the reason that he can never be certain that a patient on whom they have been practised at some time or other will not come into his hands for his temporary or regular services. At the same time, as already suggested, consider- able objection is likely to be taken by some dentists, and possibly patients also, to some of the operative treatment eulogized and advocated by the author. In the first place, a good deal of weighty opinion in this country is verging to the view that the evils of