Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — Decayed Teeth, Poor Eyesight. [ARTICLE]

Decayed Teeth, Poor Eyesight.

Ee ayed teeth have been known to exert an injurious effect on the eyesight, but a recent case in Sweden illustrates this reflex action in an unusually striking manner. The patient was a young girl blind in the right eye, although the surgeon, Dr. Widmark, was unable to detect the slightest pathological change in the organ. Observing, however, < onsiderable defects in the teeth, he sent her to M. Skogsborg, a dental surgeon, who found that all the upper and lower molars were completely decayed, and that in many of them the roots were inflamed. He extracted the remains of the molars on tho right side, and in four days’ time the sight of the right eye began to return, and on the eleventh day after the extraction of the teeth it had become quite normal. The deceased fangs on the other side were subsequently removed, lest they should cause a return of the ophthalmic affection. >