RT Journal
T1 A text-book of oral pathology for students and practitioners of dentistry.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD June 15
VO 92
IS 24
SP 2046
OP 2047
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700500058035
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700500058035
AB This book deals with the etiology, diagnosis, clinical picture, pathology and, in many instances, prognosis of the diseases of the oral cavity in a manner rather popular with American writers on this subject. The first six chapters concern malformations and anomalies, including malocclusion; in the seventh chapter accretions on the teeth are discussed, and the eighth chapter covers the subjects of erosion and abrasion. In the two succeeding chapters, dental caries is treated in somewhat greater detail than is usual because of the author's active interest in the subject matter. He maintains that "at the present time there is a considerable weight of evidence in support of the view that dental caries is an infectious disease and that Bacillus acidophilus is the specific micro-organism involved," an opinion that must be received with some reservation. Pulp and apical diseases are covered in the eleventh and twelfth chapters, and the three following