ON CAPPING THE EXPOSED PULP. 



Read July 6th, 1 857. 

 By THOMAS ROGERS, Esq., M.RC.S. 



The operation for the destruction and removal of 

 the pulp, and filling the canals in the roots of the 

 teeth, is beyond all question one of the greatest 

 strides that has been effected in dental surgery 

 within the last quarter of a century, rapid as has 

 been the march of events in our speciality during 

 that period. When, however, we pass in review 

 the objections to this operation, whether as regards 

 the suffering and inconvenience to the patient, or 

 the time and labour of the dentist, or, still more 

 than either of these, the extensive loss of vitality to 

 the organ itself, and the evils consequent thereon ; 

 we may, I think, most advantageously consider 

 whether it be not possible to restore the tooth to a 

 condition of health and utility without having re- 

 course to this last resource of conservative dental 

 surgery. Every discovery that microscopic obser- 

 vation has effected, down to that lately made known 

 to us by the untiring research of one of the most 

 eminent members of our Society and Profession, I 



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