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PREPARATORY TO FILLING 231
but practically for a ten minutes' application a ten
minutes' result is attained, while Avitb these oils
the action seems to continue for several days, and
it is advantageous to place something in a tooth
that will be working of its oAvn accord during
the time that intervenes between the sittings.
The oils of cassia and cinnamon have a tendency
to sometimes discolour teeth, and it is therefore
unmse to use them in incisors, for even a slight
change of colour, that would be unnoticed in bicus-
pids and molars, is here very apparent. The oils of
cloves and peppermint will therefore be preferable
in front teeth, although their action is not so
strong.
In the treatment of pulpless teeth there is still
much to be desired, and that there is a great field
here for new and improved remedies is shown by
the eagerness with which dentists fly to new anti-
septics and germicides. To allude to all the remedies
that have been used with success would be beyond
the scope of these " Notes," and it is, of course,
impossible for any one man to have given a suf-
ficiently extended trial to a tithe of the germicides
that are used to warrant him in expressing an
opinion respecting them.
Many experienced dentists believe that the old-
fashioned creosote is quite as good, if not better.