Dental caries and its causes : an investigation into the influence of fungi in the destruction of the teeth / by Drs. Leber and Rottenstein ; translated by H. Chandler.

  • Rottenstein J. B.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Dental caries and its causes : an investigation into the influence of fungi in the destruction of the teeth / by Drs. Leber and Rottenstein ; translated by H. Chandler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INQUIRIES INTO DENTAL CARIES. I. RESUME OF THE INQUIRIES MADE, UP TO THE PRESENT DAY, INTO THE NATURE OF DENTAL CARIES. Under the name of Dental Cafies is comprehended a path- ologic process which, after having more or less softened and destroyed the tissues, occasions a loss of substance, and ends, after the destruction of the pulp, in the entire loss of the dental organ. This process has nothing in common with caries of the bones but the name. It diflers from it entirely in its nature. Nevertheless, the name of caries has come into so common use that it would be difficult to replace it by another, and as for the rest, no one will ever confound dental caries with the affection of the bones which passes by the same name. The nature of dental caries has for ages been the subject of investigation. The ancient physicians, the dentists of their times, who engaged in this inquiry, confined them- selves to making hypotheses more or less ingenious, and founded them upon experience and clinical observation. In- vestigation, in its proper sense, was only possible when the histologic structure of the dental tissues was known. For a long period two hypotheses held a balanced sway: 2