Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1916 — FIX UP FRACTURED JAWS [ARTICLE]

FIX UP FRACTURED JAWS

Remarkable Work Being Accomplished by American Dentists in France. London. —The work accomplished by the American residents In Paris when they founded their great military hospital at the Lycee Pasteur and opened it as “a gift to humanity” is bearing good fruit. In those days military surgery was comparatively a young subject, but even then the keen judgment of the American dentists —notable that of Doctor Hayes—showed them how great a part dental and jaw injuries were likely to play In the war and how essential it was that these should be properly treated. The jaw may be broken, a piece of bone may actually have been smashed out of it. The loss of that piece of bone, that tooth socket, can only have one result If left untreated —deformity of a permanent character. Many of these cases are now in existence. One of them was so bad that the deformity constituted a threat to breathing. The French, like the Americans, have not been slow to recognize these facts as the work of Doctor Frey at the Vai-de-Grace shows. The dentist comes upon the scene with a difficult task In front of him. For he has to devise methods of keeping the broken portions of the jaw In correct position, correctly spaced from one another, until such time as nature is about to bridge the gap, and all the time he has to work against the tendency of the mouth to infect his work and ruin IL But the problem can be solved, and It is being solved. The work of the Americans at the Lycee Pasteur and of the French have proved this, ani If further proof be needed the exhibition of plates and. dentures at present being held here at the Royal Society of Medicine furnishes it. The pictures from Paris and elsewhere of men befoFe~and after treatmehf ’are eloquent testimony.