Dr. Gordon White: "After having used tin for nine years, I claim that it is the best filling-material that has been given to our profession."
Dr. C. S. Stockton: "Tin is one of the best materials for saving teeth, and we should use it more than we do."
Dr. James Truman: "I use tin strictly upon the cohesive principle, and would place it in all teeth except the anterior ones, but would not hesitate to fill these when of a chalky character."
Dr. Corydon Palmer: "For fifty-four years I have been a firm advocate of the use of tin, and I have a filling in one of my teeth which is forty years old."
Dr. William Jarvie: "I rarely fill a cavity with gold for children under twelve years of age that I want to keep permanently, but use tin, and in five or ten years, more or less, it wears out. Still, it can easily be renewed, or if all the tin is removed we find the dentin hard and firm. The dentist is not always doing the best for his patients if he does not practice in this way."
Dr. C. E. Francis: "I have proved positively that tin foil in good condition is cohesive, and my views have been corroborated by dentists and chemists."
Dr. James E. Garretson: "Tin foil is cohesive, and can be used the same as gold foil, and to an extent answers the same purpose."
Dr. C. R. Butler: "Tin is cohesive and makes a first-class saving filling."
Dr. W. C. Barrett: "Tin is as cohesive as gold, and if everything was blotted out of existence with which teeth could be filled, except tin, more teeth would be saved."
Dr. L. D. Shepard: "Tin possesses some antiseptic properties for the preservation of teeth that gold does not."