Dental medicine, a manual of dental materia medica and therapeutics / by Ferdinand J.S. Gorgas.

  • Gorgas, Ferdinand J. S. (Ferdinand James Samuel), 1835-1914.
Date:
1895
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    and it is-absolutely a non-irritant. The method recom- mended for its use as a capping and filling material is, to incorporate iodoform and terchloride of phenol with decal- cified dead bone, as follows : dead bone or ivory shavings are decalcified in a ten per cent, solution of chemically pure hydrochloric acid, and after all the lime salts are extracted, the residue is collected upon a filter, washed, dried and rubbed to a fine powder in a porcelain or glass mortar. Upon this powder ten times its weight of a ten per cent, solution of iodoform in sulphuric ether is gradually poured and constantly rubbed until a fine yellow powder is obtained, which contains about fifty per cent, of iodoform. When used as a capping for pulps, or a filling material for root canals of teeth, this powder is made into a paste by the addition of carbolic acid or terchloride of phenol, being worked or rubbed together like ordinary cement. For hypersemic conditions of the den- tal pulp success has attended the application of a cap of the iodoform and decalcified bone paste mixed with terchloride of phenol. For inflamed pulps the application of terchloride of phenol is to be repeated every third or fifth day, until no more pain is felt, and the pulp is then to be capped with the decal- cified bone, iodoform and terchloride of phenol material, and a temporary filling introduced into the crown cavity. The treat- ment of ulcerated and gangrenous pulps of teeth consists in treating with the terchloride of phenol, and after the second or third application, if no trouble occurs from a temporary closure of the root canals, to fill with the decalcified bone, iodoform and terchloride material, using whalebone instru- ments for its introduction, until congelation is occasioned, and the congested condition of the capillaries of the part relieved, acting as a counter-irritant and antiphlogistic. TEREBINTHINA—TURPENTINE. Source.—The concrete oleo-resin of Piiins australis and vari- ous species of pine. Oleum TerebiutJiincB.—Oil of Turpentine obtained by distil- lation.