X-RAYS FOR TEETH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 122, 24 May 1919, Page 7

X-RAYS FOR TEETH

GREAT ADVANCE IN DENTAL { PRACTICE. ?

A new development in dentistry-—the use of X-ray photography —seems likely to have important results (states a London paper). In the past the dentist has had to work more or less in the dark under a handicap of which patients have sometimes become painfully aware ; but by making use of the new “dental , radiography” he can now see the con- j dition of every tooth right down to tho i base of the root. There is no longer i any need to make any nerve-shattering , preliminary investigation/or to be in any doubt as to whether a certain tooth has an abcess at the root or not. At present no London dentist has au X-ray plant of his own but already there is a doctor iu New Cavendish street who spends most of his time taking , photographs of the teeth of patients who have been sent him by other doctors or by dentists. He showed several prints to a Press representative. In pne ah abscess "’was clearly shown as a dark mass, and in another an unhealthy septic state was indicated at the root qf a tooth. Bad work by .a dentist has no chance of escaping the X-rays. Perhaps the most striking photographs were thode Of children, showing very clearly the “number and 'position of second eeth still in the gum. Another similar , print was of a grown man who had beep troubled by a mysterious pain. ; The X-rays revealed a late “wisdom” f 1 teeth still in the gum. Another similar ; I chance of coming properly to the surf j face.