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Show TEETH OLOCY. The Ogden "StaniJarcI" and Dr. Epperson Epper-son Taken to Task. Replantation and Transplantation Transplanta-tion of Teeth. The abuve subject, treated by an enthusiastic Standard reporter and Dr. J. II. Kppe-sen, Kppe-sen, as appears in the Ogden Standard of Dec. ISlh under the head uf an ''Interesting Operation," is quite amusing as it is ridiculous on some points. In perusing that article the public would be led to suppose that Dr. Epperson possessed some wonderful skill and knowledge not generally known to the profession. pro-fession. That any tooth he transplanted, no matter how unsightly it was in shade, would soon take on the color of its neighbors; and that he might be able, in toothless mouths, to drill holes 111 rough the soft tissues and into the bony structures of the jaws, and into those holes transplant teeth which would become useful and permanently fixed there, bony union taking place and the so ft tissue closing around the tooth, ' accommodating themselves to it the same as with a normal tooth If a Standard reporter received such information with wonder and surprise, so would the dental profession at large receive it. This subject has its practical field and in certain cases satisfactory results have heen attained by resorting to it. eplantation can not, as a rule,he successfully accomplished with all teeth; to attempt it is admissihle in me anterior teem, lnr.uuunn tne bicuspids. The molars are capable of being replanted only in except-j ionu cases, when there is fusion j of the roots and they assume a conical form, and occasionally a lower molar where the roots are perpendicular to the crown. These teeth, in case of obstinate alveolar abscess, ma' be extracted and any eroded portion of the root amputated, the surfaces finely polished, the root canal reamed out, cleansed, filled and the whole thoroughly sterilized; the abscessed ab-scessed cavity disinfected and the tooth replaced in the socket, immobility im-mobility being secured by a splint until union has taken place. That such a union will take place no dentist can guarantee even in most favorable cases and the patient must assume the risk. Failure a generally the result if it is attempted with patients suffering from general aneima, tuberculosis, and syphilis. Replantation can not be success fully resorted to in all cases, and where H is injudiciously auempiea failure is the ultima to result. O. W. Snow. D. D. S. Bu ion am City. Dec. 2'2nd, 1S02. |