A few remarks on dental reflexes / by H. MacNaughton Jones.

  • Jones, H. Macnaughton (Henry Macnaughton), 1844-1918.
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[1894]
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    A FEW REMARKS ON DENTAL REFLEXES. By H. Macnaughton Jones, M.D., Hon. M.A.O. M.Ch. F.R.C.S.L & E. (^Formerly University Professor Queen's University, and Examiner in the Royal University). j^'HE part played by the teeth in originating reflex irritations is now well established. But this source of a distant neurosis is hardly kept in view as frequently as it ought to be in the daily practice, both of the practitioner and the dental surgeon. The latter, especially, must have frequent opportunity of recognising in carious or otherwise affected teeth, an explanation of some puzzling disorder which has baffled the therapeutic skill of the physician, or the more specialised aid of the Specialist, the attention of the latter being very naturally concentrated on that aflFection of nervous system, eye, ear, uterus, or other organs for which he is consulted. Since the fact has been recognised that the teeth and eyes are frequently the cause of severe headache, facial neuralgia, and more especially in the instance of errors of refraction, reflex gastric disturbances (such as nausea and sickness) dental and occular affec- tions, in their relation to these disorders, have had greater attention paid to them than was the practice some years since. I thmk that the sensitiveness of the teeth and the secondary consequences of dental disorders are more felt by women than men. This IS not a matter for surprise when we remember the greater susceptibility of women to various neuroses, both visceral and peripheral, the physiological predisposition to which, the frequently recurring changes of female life bring about. No gynaecologist can any longer ignore the possibility of dental irritation being a superadded source of a headache, which he is inclined to look on as neurotic because he can find nothing abnormal in the pelvic viscera, or which persists after he has perchance rectified some such uterine cause of reflex disturbance as a flexion or version of the