AMAZING DENTISTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 7

AMAZING DENTISTRY.

WAR CAUSES STRANGEST CASE RECORDED. London, November 5. The most astonishing piece of. dental work 011 record is illustrated by Lieutenant Valadier at an exhibition of fracture apparatus by officers of the 1.A.M.C., which was opened yesterday at the Royal Society of Medicine by Surgeon-General Sir Alfred 11. Keogli. During the battle of Neuvc Cliappelle a young officer, a lieutenant in a Highland regiment, had his face half-turned upwards, when a piece of shell struck the left side of his face and blew away most of the lower jaw. Incredible though it may seem, Lieut. Valadier put a new floor to the man's mouth, actually induced two inches of bone to grow on the lower jaw, fixed complete artificial teeth, and healed the remains of the lips, with the result that now the man is as normal as ever, and the only result of his mishap is a slight scar by the month. Photos, X-ray piclures, and moulds are all in the exhibition to demonstrate this astonishing piece of dental genius. Sir Almroth Wright addressed the meeting on his recent researches, and said: "I am convinced there is no value in the use of an antiseptic of itself." He advocated as the result •of his research that treatment should mainly consist of bringing the white blood corpuscles to the surface of the wound by means of salt solution, and assisting the bodily power of the patient, with the object of enabling the healing part of the blood to cure, its own troubla