Word: pyorrhea
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Harold Box, young Professor of Dental Pathology at the University of Toronto, has discovered a new disease and a treatment which cures it. The. disease is Rarifying Pericementitis Fibrosa. It is the precursor and virtual cause of pyorrhea...
...symptoms of pyorrhea are inflammation of the gums, loosening of the teeth. Microbes multiply" in the opening between the tooth and gums and create pus pockets, ulcers, abscesses. Finally the tooth is attacked. The disease is usually considered incurable...
...idea is that pyorrhea is not caused by the loosening of the tooth, but that the loosening of the tooth is caused by the destruction of the wall structure at its base. The disease which destroys the tooth's base: is the disease he reports as discovered. It is a disease of the tooth socket membrane which destroys fibres and bone. Eliminate this disease and you eliminate pyorrhea, is Dr. Box's thesis...