Archive for June, 2007

Gum Disease Treatment - Relation of caries and periodontal diseases

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

In the column headed Percent periodontal disease, I have shown
the incidence of periodontal disease, or so-called pyorrhea
alveolaris, and find (and this was a great surprise although
it has been abundantly verified) that as the tendency to caries
increases, but the periodontal disease tends to decrease as the
intensity of the inheritance of susceptibility for the rheumatic
group lesions increase.
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Gum Disease Treatment - Relation of caries and periodontal diseases

Friday, June 29th, 2007

This has tremendous meaning and significance, for it indicates
that those patients who would be in greatest danger of injury
from an apical focal infection (because apical infections are
the results of loss of vitality of the pulp, due generally to
the approach of caries), will have most opportunity for the
infection, and, further, these individuals, who would be most
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