The prevention of dental caries and oral sepsis, being the Cartwright prize essay of the Royal college of surgeons of England for 1906-1910 with some additions / by H. P. Pickerill.
- Henry Percy Pickerill
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The prevention of dental caries and oral sepsis, being the Cartwright prize essay of the Royal college of surgeons of England for 1906-1910 with some additions / by H. P. Pickerill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![whereby both passive and active resistance might be fortified against the attacks of the oxygenetic or acid- forming forces as constituted in the combination of carbohydrates with organisms, and a further considera- tion of how these latter forces might be weakened or destroyed entirely. The dietaries of natural and civilized peoples have been examined in detail, and inference from the one and corrections for the other have been made. Finally, educational and legislative methods of deal- ing with the problem have been suggested. The author is convinced that, by the means and methods subsequently to be described, not only may the occurrence of caries be prevented, but in some cases actually cured. In several patients [children) i&ho have been under constant observation during the past two years, and in whom caries was commencing, not only have no more carious cavities appeared, but those that were present have not progressed, and the surface has become quite hard. The condition ivhich is known as arrested caries has, in fact, been established. [This, despite the fact that tooth- brushes have been used only quite spasmodically.] Green stain was well established in one case, but now, with no other treatment, has practically disappeared. The significance of this will be at once appreciated in connection with measures to be adopted for the arrest of the alarmingly increasing tide of carious disease, especially in children attending elementary schools.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21512279_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
