MISCELLANEOUS.
Dr Scanes Spicer read a paper at the last meeting of the Odontologioal Society upon “ Nasal Obstruction and Mouthbreathing as Factors in the Etiology of Disorders cf the Teeth.” In the course of bis remarks be said he had been struck with the frequency with which carious teeth were associated with obstruction to the pharynx and enlarged tonsils; so much so that he had mads it a routine practice to examine the teeth in all oases of nasal obstruction, and he believed that there existed a relation between them. Normally we should breathe through the nose, so as to warm and filter the air respired. All animals, savage races, and young infants do so; but a large number of adults of civilised“nations breathe through the mouth, because they have some obstruction of the nasal passage. Mouth-breathing, he said, as a predisposing cause of caries iu the teeth, came into action in various ways. For one thing, the teeth were exposed to a current of air of a much lower temperature than that of the body, which would tend to cause inflamation of the neriosteum of a tooth.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6268, 15 July 1890, Page 3
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188MISCELLANEOUS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 6268, 15 July 1890, Page 3
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