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106 Curative Treatment of Caries.
"Were we to judge indeed, from the almost innumerable
cases of failure which occur, we might conclude that the un-
certainty of the operation was so great, as essentially to
diminish its utiUtj' and importance. These cases however,
occur under the treatment of ignorant persons, who arc alike
incompetent to the mechanical and surgical part of the opera-
tion, and who are equally incapable of choosing a proper time
for its performance." Snell, page 151.
" The benefits of the operation of stopping the teeth are so
truly important, that it is impossible to recommend it to earn-
estly to the public ; for thousands of the most useful teeth,
which otherwise would, on account of their painfulness, be
sacrificed by extraction, may thus be preserved, not only for
many years, but for the remainder of life. It will always
succeed, if early and properly performed."—Parm hj's Notes
to BroicrCs Dentologia, page 143.
" In a practice of upwards of twenty years, I do not remem-
ber a single instance of failure in the operation of plugging
teeth, favorable to be operated on, unless it could be traced to
some untoward circumstance. I have lately been removing
tin pluggings, (the juices of the mouth having oxidated and
dissolved away the metal, so as to expose the teeth to decay )
from teeth which I plugged more than ten and fifteen years
ago, for the purpose of re-stopping with gold, and have in almost
every instance, found the bone of the teeth at the bottom of
the pluggings, perfectly sound and protected from decay."—/.
R. Spooner, (of Montreal,) 1833.
" Plugging of the teeth, if properly done is one of the most
useful operations in dental surgery.
"If well done the preservation of the tooth will be in al-
most every instance complete."—Fitch on the Teeth, page 378.
"A gentleman has just paid me a visit who has been my
'
patient since the age of eight. During one of his vacations
saw some incipient disease and stopped it : twenty years have
elapsed, yet I found the same old stopping which I had insert-
106 Curative Treatment of Caries.
"Were we to judge indeed, from the almost innumerable
cases of failure which occur, we might conclude that the un-
certainty of the operation was so great, as essentially to
diminish its utiUtj' and importance. These cases however,
occur under the treatment of ignorant persons, who arc alike
incompetent to the mechanical and surgical part of the opera-
tion, and who are equally incapable of choosing a proper time
for its performance." Snell, page 151.
" The benefits of the operation of stopping the teeth are so
truly important, that it is impossible to recommend it to earn-
estly to the public ; for thousands of the most useful teeth,
which otherwise would, on account of their painfulness, be
sacrificed by extraction, may thus be preserved, not only for
many years, but for the remainder of life. It will always
succeed, if early and properly performed."—Parm hj's Notes
to BroicrCs Dentologia, page 143.
" In a practice of upwards of twenty years, I do not remem-
ber a single instance of failure in the operation of plugging
teeth, favorable to be operated on, unless it could be traced to
some untoward circumstance. I have lately been removing
tin pluggings, (the juices of the mouth having oxidated and
dissolved away the metal, so as to expose the teeth to decay )
from teeth which I plugged more than ten and fifteen years
ago, for the purpose of re-stopping with gold, and have in almost
every instance, found the bone of the teeth at the bottom of
the pluggings, perfectly sound and protected from decay."—/.
R. Spooner, (of Montreal,) 1833.
" Plugging of the teeth, if properly done is one of the most
useful operations in dental surgery.
"If well done the preservation of the tooth will be in al-
most every instance complete."—Fitch on the Teeth, page 378.
"A gentleman has just paid me a visit who has been my
'
patient since the age of eight. During one of his vacations
saw some incipient disease and stopped it : twenty years have
elapsed, yet I found the same old stopping which I had insert-
