Southern Dental Association

THE

AMERICAN

JOURNAL

?OF?

DENTAL SCIENCE.

Vol.

xxi.

Third

Series?DECEMBER, 1887.

ARTICLE

SOUTHERN DENTAL

COMFORT,

No.

I.

ASSOCIATION,

OLD POINT

VA.?NINETEENTH ANNUAL

.

SESSION.

REPORTED BY

"MRS.

M. W.

J.

The Southern Dental Association convened in its 19th

annual session at the Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort,

Va., Tuesday, August 30th, 1887.

the

The President, Dr. W. W. H. Thackston, occupying

the first day was opened with prayer by the Rev.

chair,

O. E. Herrick.

?

Circumstances having prevented the .attendance of

Governor Lee, who had been announced to deliver the address of welcome, Dr. Thackston made a brief address,

which

in

an

was responded to by

eloquent address on

Dr. J. H.

Prewitt,

of Kentucky,

behalf of the Southern Dental

Association.

Dr. V. E. Turner next welcomed all present in behalf

Virginia Dental Society. This was followed by the

of the

annual address of the President.

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The Association

After

some

was

of

Dental Science.

called to order at 3:30 p.

m.

announcements from the Committee on Ar-

rangements, the President introduced Prof. J. Taft, of Cincinnati, President of the Section of Dental and Oral Surgery of the International Medical Congress. Dr. Taft was

suffering from a severe cold and made only a few remarks,

cordially inviting all dentists present

proceedings of the Congress.

to

participate

The President next introduced Prof. W. H.

of Vanderbilt

of his

University, Tenn.,

early days.

as one

of the few

in the

Morgan,

confreres

After the response of Dr. Morgan, Dr. George H.

Torney, United States Army Surgeon, of Fortress Monroe,

was

next introduced

Torney for a

the clinics).

(the

Association

was

A number of visiting dentists from

the North and West

privileges

indebted

corps of soldiers from the Fort

were

introduced,

were

tendered.

of the floor

as

to

subjects

abroad,

Dr.

for

and from

and to whom the

Sjolberg, of Stockholm, responded in

foreign members present.

J. B. Hodgkin, of Baltimore, offered the follow-

Dr. Tandlak E.

behalf of the

Prof.

ing

resolutions:

Whereas,

this Association

has learned

with

deep

regret of the death of Dr. J. R. Walker, of New Orleans,

one

of its oldest and most active members.

a committee of three be

appointed to

resolutions, expressive of the sense of the

Association has sustained, and present them at a

Resolved,

That

draft suitable

loss this

suitable time for consideration.

memorial page be set apart in the

roll book of this Association, to be inscribed with the

Resolved,

names

That

a

of the deceased members.

adopted and a committee apJ.

Hodgkin chairman.

pointed,

Dr. E. A. Baldwin (Chicago) having prepared a paper

for the Association, by special invitation, was assigned to

the opening of the morning session, Wednesday.

The resolutions

with Dr.

were

B.

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339

The committees of scientific sections not

being ready

Wednesday,

with reports

on

papers,

to 10

adjourned

a.

m.,

August 31st.

Wednesday, August 31?Second Day.

First session called to order at

in the chair.

Dr. A. E.

Baldwin,

session

previous

Association, and

Filling."

the

?

of

10 a. m.,

the President

Chicago, by -resolution of the

platform as the guest of

invited to the

was

read

a

paper entitled "Immediate Root

The President desired to thank the author for the very

able paper he has presented,

Dr. B. H. Catching (Atlanta,

Baldwin

why

Ga.,)

wished to ask Dr.

he used 95 per cent, carbolic acid in

five per cent.

Dr. Baldwin replied that it

prefer-

ence to

was

used

simply

in

a

state

5 pfer cent, water. The

it from the solid cryto

cent,

was

used

distinguish

95 per

stals. He had understood there were other papers bearing

on the same subject, and regretted that they had not been

of diliquessence, in which there

read,

that the

subject,

was

rather than his paper,

might

be dis-

cussed.

Morgan (Nashville, Tenn.) moved that if

there were any other papers on the subject, they be read.

Dr. Catching suggested that if there were any voluntary papers on the subject not in the hands of the committee

they be produced at once.

Dr. Winkler begged that they come up "like little

men," and read them.

Prof. J. B. Hodgkin (Baltimore) said that he would

like to stay at Old Point Comfort till Christmas, but it

could not be. He moved that the subject be passed if

there was nothing further to be said.

Dr. Marshall (Little Rock, Ark.,) read a paper entitled

"Conservatism in Selecting Filling Materials."

Dr. Winkler said that the paper read by Dr. Baldwin

Dr. W. H.

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Journal of

very valuable and its suggestions worthy of consideration, especially that relative to the thorough drying of the

was

canal and the dessication of the tubuli.

with him in the

filling.

lead

or

He

use

thought

carbolized

of the

He did not agree

solution as root

the best materials for root

wood,

immediate

thought

was exposed

gutta-percha

fillings

were

gutta-percha points.

He

limited to where the

nerve

or

root-filling

extirpated by driving in a wooden peg.

In that case no treatment was needed, as all remains of the

nerve and fibrous tissues would be immediately removed,

the canal thoroughly cleaned and washed out, first with

alcohol and then with carbolic acid, and wiped dry. When

the canals

or

and

were

too small to admit the

he would

gutta-percha points,

and creosote in

stiff paste.

use a

of lead

use

or

wood,

mixture of iodoform

Where dormant dead

pulps

cavity thoroughly,

opens the root canal and injects peroxide of hydrogen,

letting it ooze out on a doylie until ebullition lessens and

it finally comes out clear. Wiping it out thoroughly, fill

a

discovered,

were

he cleaned the

crown

with the iodoform and carbolic acid

it down with

or

creosote

paste,

of

point

gutta-percha, but not

pressing

the

to

force

through

apex of the root. When

sufficiently

old dead pulps were found, was afraid to fill immediately.

Would dress them as above and wait at least one day. If

a

had been butchered with arsenic would wait longer.

they

Story (Dallas, Texas) said that to hear the

Chicago and the brother from Georgia talk,

one might suppose that root canals were as big and as

straight as gun barrels. But in Texas they were not made

that way; they were crooked and small. That often it was

impossible to get anything either in or, out. He cleaned

Dr.

J.

C.

brother from

out root canals and he filled root canals as much

sible,

but he did not fill them all.

He

uses

as

posof

oxychloride

zinc every time, and does not know that he has lost one.

He uses iodoform because it outstinks all the odors of the

tooth.

there is

He also

a

uses

oil of cloves and carbolic acid.

blind abscess he

brings

it to

If

sight by drilling

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341

the alveolar process, and fills at once. He said

he wanted the brethren to tell him more about those drills

through

sense enough to go around curves and stop right

?t the end of the root; they had never got to Texas. He

also wanted to know the ethology of pyorrhoea alveolaris.

that have

He felt that those two items would pay him for his

trip from Texas.

Dr.

long

given by speaker) said that he had

thought

subject of absolute dryness; that all

were agreed as to the necessity for

asepticism, but he did

not think absolute permanent dryness could be attained,

even with the hot air syringe; that moisture would find its

way in through the tubuli. by capillary attraction.

Dr. C. E. Kells, Jr., (New Orleans) said that if the root

filling was perfect there would be no danger from moisture;

that the two could not occupy the same place at the same

(name

much

on

not

the

time. He said that Dr. Baldwin did not claim to fill all

roots, neither did he (Kells). If a root canal was so fine

that a nerve bristle could not enter, there was not enough

nerve fibre to fear.

If a drill could enter, then it should be

filled. He uses a carbolized wooden peg, driven to the

apex, and Guillois' oxychloride, but anything that would

seal the apex would answer the purpose. If a child of

seven or eight years of age breaks a tooth,

say by a fall,

before the root is developed, a peg of orange wood cail be

so shaped as to seal the open foramen.

For five years he

had done as he was taught at college, treating for weeks,

but he had

an

since abandoned that useless

long

abscess followed

root-filling,

treated from the outside.

used the

terms

practice. If

as

readily

it could be

He said that Dr. Winkler had

carbolic acid and creosote

as

though they

synonymous, but that was not true. Carbolic acid

would cauterize and leave an eschar, which was not the

were

case

of creosote.

Dr.

J.

Rollo

Knapp (New Orleans) said that he would

failures, and they came back to him with"

did not think wood would always answer

admit that he had

abscesses.

He

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