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TRANSLArOK'S PREFACE

There are a good many dental surgeons who hold that
in cases of pyorrhtiea alveolaris, when the teeth are
very loose, connecting them together with bridge-
work steadies them in their sockets, and consequently
permits more effective treatment.
On the other hand, it is maintained by an equally
large, if not greater, number, that the employment of
a bridge is quite unjustifiable where the patient's
teeth are loosening. Though, consequently, expert
opinion upon the merits of the methods expounded
herein by the author is likely to be somewhat varied,
it is nevertheless well for every dental surgeon to be
acquainted therewith, as with every device, if only for
the reason that he can never be certain that a patient
on whom they have been practised at some time or
other will not come into his hands for his temporary
or regular services.
At the same time, as already suggested, consider-
able objection is likely to be taken by some dentists,
and possibly patients also, to some of the operative
treatment eulogized and advocated by the author.
In the first place, a good deal of weighty opinion
in this country is verging to the view that the evils of