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Excerpt from The International Dental Journal, 1898, Vol. 19: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Dental and Oral Science I will briefly give you a report of two selected cases illustrating the line of treatment which I have indicated. About three years ago a lady called upon me for treatment, who, in the pursuance of her profession, is required to travel from city to city during the greater part of each year, thus requiring and receiving attention from several dentists. She reported that the first inferior molar on the right side had for a long while been the source of much annoy ance. It had been treated by numerous dentists, would apparently return to the normal condition, but with every cold she con tracted the alveolar inflammation would return. I inspected the tooth in question, and found in it a large amalgam filling; while on the border of the maxilla immediately below, and Opposite the anterior root, was an inflammatory bunch, such as we have all seen, which seemed quite dense, and sore to pressure. I removed the filling from the tooth, and from the roots took a quantity of cotton, having a composite Odor, in which I could detect that of creosote. I enlarged the canals slightly by means of the Gates Glidden drills, irrigated them thoroughly with peroxide of hydrogen and warm water, then introduced on a few fibres of asbestos a dressing of oil of cinnamon, closing the cavity with gutta-percha. The patient was visiting my office nearly every day for the week following, having a partial bridge denture inserted, which gave me an opportunity to watch the swelling disappear and the tis sues return to a normal color and condition. At the close of her stay in this city she called, as I had requested, to have the tooth filled. I removed the dressing, dried the canals thoroughly with warm air, and closed the apical ends with a small point of gutta percha; then filled the roots with oxychloride Of zinc, and closed the crown cavity with an alloy filling and dismissed the case. N ow we have the most interesting and important part of the matter. After an absence of two years the patient again called upon me for services, and reported that this tooth had not given her a moment's uneasiness during her absence, and had been quite as useful as any other of the similar organs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.