Dental Medicine; A Manual of Dental Materia Medica and Therapeutics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: stances as will not readily ferment, and all food containing starch should be avoided. Although topical remedies are more generally employed in the treatment of dental affections, yet there are many diseases of the oral cavity which are due to remote causes, and require constitutional as well as local treatment. The appearances presented by the mucous membrane of the mouth are valuable, as indicating the state of other parts more remote; and it is frequently the case that, when the constitutional affection is overcome, the local symptoms disappear as a consequence, or become very amenable to local remedies. IMPORTANT POINTS IN DIAGNOSING AFFECTIONS OF THE MOUTH, WITH A SYNOPSIS OF TREATMENT. The Irritation of Teething is indicated by a hot, swollen and tender condition of the gums, fretfulness, irritable temper, refusal of nourishment, fever and thirst, and, if not relieved, diarrhoea with offensive motions, sometimes a troublesome cough, convulsions, and other serious results. An Abnormal Dentition is indicated by a hot, dry mouth, swollen gums, tense, tender and shining, fever, disordered bowels, fretfulness, eruption of skin, diarrhoea, convulsions. Convulsions of Dentition are indicated by such premonitory symptoms as irritable temper, unusual brightness of eyes, indisposition to eat or sleep, slight involuntary movements of muscles of face or extremities, grinding of teeth. The paroxysm is indicated by rigidity of body, utterance of a cry, face turning red or purple, veins of neck turgid, suspension of respiration, loss of consciousness, irregular and intermittent contractions of muscles, protrusion of tongue, frothing at lips, distortion of face, rolling of eyeballs, contracted and rapid pulse. Treatment.?For the relief of the premonitory symptoms of den...