NO MORE FALSE TEETH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1687, 17 January 1888, Page 4

NO MORE FALSE TEETH.

A report from Washington says A man of about forty years—short, pleasant-faced and with the keen appearance of an epicure—was watched with keen interest this morning by a roomful of dentists at the Franklin School Buildings as he performed a clinic in operative dentistry upon a portly Englishman who lay back in the dental chair. The clinic was a practical demonstration of the art of implanting teeth. The man was Dr William J. Younger, of San Francisco, and the operation was the result of a dispute between the dentist from the Q-olden State and an English dentist who had stoutly asserted his disbelief in the practicability of planting a tooth in a man’s mouth and making it grow there. The dispute was so warm that the Englishman offered himself as a subject if no other person could be found to be operated upon, It was not found necessary, however, to hold him to his promise, as a fellow-countryman was secured. It is claimed that although a man may have been without his natural teeth for years, the process which Dr Younger has discovered will allow sound teeth to be inserted in the place of the lost ones, and thus do away with false teeth. Diseased teeth can;also be removed, cleansed and replaced. The operation is thus briefly described by one of the dentists present—* Dr Younger takes a sound tooth, corresponding in space to the hole left by the missing tooth, ligates the gum, and separates it from the alvial process, and drills a cavity into which he places the tooth and then ligates it to another tooth to retain it in position.’ In the operation a right and left lateral tooth were successfully implanted.