Transactions Of The Southern Dental Association Twenty Seventh Annual Meeting At Asheville N C July 28 30 1896 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... I could not suppose that anything was desired or expected from me. I will not occupy the time of the Association in the reiteration of facts already known to you. Dr. Friedrichs's report contained nothing special in reference to dental hygiene, and I do not know that there is anything new to be said upon that subject. Cleanliness is most essential to hygiene--cleanliness of the person, cleanliness of the premises, cleanliness in all things pertaining to ourselves, to our work, to our surroundings. Cleanliness certainly holds the first place in the science of hygiene. Those of us who have had dyspepsia will realize the importance of what Dr. Friedrichs said in regard to the hygiene of food, but in this respect no laws can be laid down. Food must be selected according to the individual constitution. One person can eat sweet things and grow fat on them and feel well, but cannot eat anything containing grease; with another it is just the reverse. Every man must be guided, in the selection of food, by what suits his peculiar organism, --that which his stomach can digest. Very much depends upon the manner in which food is prepared for the stomach; if it is not well prepared it will not be readily digested. The preparation of food depends upon the ability of the individual to masticate thoroughly, and here it is that dentistry comes in. Too often, in the services rendered by the dentist, too little consideration is given to the masticatory function of the teeth, though, fortunately, the class of operators who made the large V-shaped openings is rapidly passing away. Yet occasionally, even now, a patient will present and ask us if we cannot fill up those spaces in which the food becomes impacted so uncomfortably. We should admonish our patients...