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THE TECHNICAL PROCEDURES IN FILLING
TEETH.

Introduction.
Under the term Operative Dentistry we include
all those
operations upon the natural teeth and
soft parts immediately
connected with them that are usually performed by the dentist.
But for convenience in teaching, and by common consent, cer-
tain operations are consigned to other departments. The
extraction of teeth belongs to Oral Surgery
; the preparation of
natural teeth, or their roots, for crowns and bridges, belongs to
crown and bridge work
; the regulation of irregular teeth to
Orthodontia, etc., until today operative dentistry is pretty
strictly confined to those operations upon the natural teeth and
soft parts immediately connected with them
for the repair of
damage inflicted by
caries, to prevent further
caries, and the
treatment of diseases resulting from exposure or death of the
pulps of the teeth.
To this is added that group of diseases of
the peridental membrane beginning at the gingival border.
The subject matter in
this book will be confined to a brief
presentation of the technical procedures
in filling teeth. No
study of pathological conditions
will be undertaken ; not even
of dental caries, further than a study of the position and forms
of cavities, and such observations as may be necessary in the
explanation of technical procedures in the preparation of
cavities and in filling teeth. The nomenclature relating to
cavities and cavity preparation, instruments and instrumentation,
will be fully presented.
Nomenclature.

Dental
Nomenclature treats of the system of naming things.
nomenclature treats of the terms, or names, used in dentistry.
The subject is of first importance, for
if we do not know the
names by which we call things we will be unable to understand
each other in speaking of them.
Every profession, business or
trade has
its special system of naming things pertaining to
it.