Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — Marvelous Dental Feat. [ARTICLE]

Marvelous Dental Feat.

Tooth carpentry bids fa r to be robbed of its terrors, for it has come to pass that decayed and torturing teeth cun be taken out, cleaned, filled, repaired, and replaced in the jaw. Dr. O. B. Rundle, of Monticello, has for some months been asking himself the question, “If broken and sepera.ed bones and lacerated flesh would unite and become sound, why not the teeth?” He resolved to try the experiment when he found a subject. The latter turned up iu the person of a stalwart blacksmith with a decayed and painful molar, the first on the right side of the lower teeth. The doctor extracted it and found it slightly decayed, but with two ulcerous sacs at the point of the pr ngs. He explained the new theory to the patient, who was desirous to save the tooth, and he told the dentist to go ihead. The ulcers were removed, the tooth drilled and plugged with gold, the proprietor holding it while the dentist did the job, which required two hours The tooth was replaced in its socket, and now, after ten days, it has become firm as before.