RT Journal
A1 ALVAREZ WC
T1 A protest against the reckless extraction of teeth
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD October 18
VO 73
IS 16
SP 1179
OP 1180
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610420007003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610420007003
AB Day after day I see people who have had half a dozen or more teeth extracted. Their former physicians had promised them great things; in some cases had even guaranteed a cure, but here they are still suffering and now greatly discouraged. Many have no chewing surface left, and the remaining teeth are often so distributed that the only thing to do is to remove them and put in plates. To my mind one of the saddest features is that, in many of these cases, an experienced physician might have foretold the unsatisfactory outcome and might have warned the orthopedist or the dentist to proceed cautiously and conservatively. The arthritis may plainly have been gouty or tuberculous, the headaches may have been due to nephritis or to advanced arteriosclerosis, and the pains in the shoulders may have been due to degenerative changes in the aortic arch. Sometimes I have secured