Hickory Root Filling.—Dr. White protested against anyone condemning a thing of which he knew nothing. He had filled straight roots with hickory for eighteen or nineteen years. He does not fill the entire canal—not more than one-eighth of an inch at the apex. The object in using it, is to know that the foramen is closed; then you can fill the root with anything desired. The method is to file a piece of well-seasoned dense hickory almost to a point, then pass it up to the apex. If there is the slightest indication of pain, withdraw the wood, cut off a short piece from the end; again insert, mark at the cutting edge of the tooth: then again withdraw, and with a sharp knife, make a grove around it, about an eighth of an inch from the point, and bend the end over without breaking it off. Insert for the last time, the proper position being indicated by the groove, tap it home, and twist off the point.
Footnotes
[1] Read before the St. Louis Dental Society, Feb. 18, 1890.
[2] Read before the Eastern Iowa Dental Society, Jan. 14, 1890.
[3] Read before the Eastern Iowa Dental Society, January 14, 1890.
[4] Read before Harvard Odontological Society, December 26, 1889. ARCHIVES, Vol. VII, page 110.
[5] Read before the Central Dental Society of New Jersey. Archives, Vol. VII, page 49.
Transcriber's Notes.
1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.