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OPERATIVE DENTISTRY.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
As introductory to the following treatise, a cursory
consideration of those conditions and diseases of the
teeth which require the aid of dental surgery, would
seem appropriate. To refer, however, to all of these,
or to remark extendedly upon any of them, would
not be consistent with the design of this work, or
necessary to a proper understanding of the subjects
proposed. Only those affections which pertain to the
teeth directly, and which for the most part, are con-
fined to the tooth-substance itself, will here be con-
sidered. Nor will the pathology of contiguous parts
for the treatment of these, being
be introduced ;
mainly therapeutic rather than surgical, would involve
a discussion of questions not within the scope of the
present volume. Indeed, it is proposed merely to
speak of those affections of the teeth, which generally
