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298 DENTAL MEDICINE.

effective in small quantities, and may be diluted with sugar of
milk.
Dr. E. C. Kirk highly recommends aristol for aveolar pyor-
rhoea, a 10 per cent, solution being rubbed upon a glass plate with
oil of cinnamon and introduced into each suppurating pocket, and
around the root at the base of each pocket, on threads of absorb-
ent cotton saturated with the solution ; the oil of gaultheria may
be substituted for the oil of cinnamon if desired. Dr. Kirk and
others also recommend aristol in the essential oils as a medica-
ment for canal-dressings, and as a topical dressing in acute pul-
pitis. Dr. Kirk recommends that as a root-canal dressing, its
use should be strictly confined to those cases where pericemental
inflammation is not a present factor, as it does not possess anti-
septic qualities sufficiently powerful to overcome quickly septic
conditions due to the putrefactive changes common in root-canals.
He also finds it extremely valuable in connection with gutta
percha, as an antiseptic in conjunction with permanent root fill-
ings—aristol with chloroform being used to dissolve the gutta
percha. It is also recommended as an ingredient of nerve paste,
being equal to iodoform for such a purpose, but free from the
disagreeable odor of the latter substance ; it is also used in chloro-
form solution, instead of sandarach varnish, for saturating cotton
used for wedges or temporary fillings for retaining medicaments in
cavities in the teeth ; such a dressing or wedge may be retained
for days or a week, and being antiseptic, it is free from disagree-
able odor during that time. Aristol is also recommended as a
dressing where approximal caries has extended beyond the gum
margin, and where hypertrophy of the gum festoon occurs to the
degree of forming a polypoid growth which invades the cavity
;
also in the form of a varnish it is combined with collodion as a
pulp-capping material. To increase the adhesiveness of the
aristol solution, a small quantity of Canada balsam may be
added to it.
Dr. R. M. Chase recommends an aristol chloro-percha root
filling composed of two grains of aristol in one drachm of chloro-
percha.