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Seasonal variation in growth of children
gated operative surgery to a subordinate position. The editor is not asserting that operat,ive dentistry has passed into the hands of another group hilt that it has simply petered out as a field of dental activity.
SeasoaaJ Variation
in Growth
of Children.
Section on Prevent,ive aud Iutlustrial ~Itd. Assn., May 20, 1927.
1Iavr11 Emmon. 3Iedieinr
I’rocwdi~tgs of and Public IItwlth, ,\III.
Emerson reports from studies in growth of children in 13ostotl. ‘l’or.otiIo and IIonolulu. He finds children increasing in weight very slightly. 01’ YIImainitlg stationary, or even dropping below their previous xeight brt~twr Dreernber and April. 111 1naq instances infectious diseases, nlol’e especially ititlurnzii iill(l mcaslt s OI* scarlet fever, developed soon after this loss in weight begall. It was rtot always apparent whether this loss in weight was the cause or ~11~. effect of the intercurrent disease, though the impression gained by th:, CI~ITC’:~ was that the diseases took hold when the child had hwn reduced somewhat bj possible climatic influences, though the author thought that fatigutb was aI fault.
Ultraviolet
Light
in Dentistry.
Syuiposium
ant1 etlitorial
iii
‘HIP
lh~rrliil
Siw
geon, October 8, 192i. 111 this issue the original articles are contributed by Professor Haly, Dr. 11. L. B’alkner, and Dr. A. E. Kowlctt, kvhile the summary is by the scietltifio editor of t,he journal. The education of the dentist, differs chiefly from that of the physician in being more practical, as he must tlevote at least two of his undergraduate years in workin g OII the living human subject. But for I his wry reason he remains somewhat aloof from general treatment of his patir>ut alltl has not, yet been much intrigued by such subjects as light treatmr*nt. The rays of the sun are not expected to act on conwaled structures like 1hcb teeth and there seems no valid I’~SOII ~vh~-they suffer any privation if actiiiics 1’ass arc withheld. Professor Haly who makes this point adds that helleiits from the rays if any must accrue to the organism as a whole. Severthc~lrss. Dr. Zl’alkner, like some other practicin p dentists, believes that the loca.1 application of the rays may beurfit the puriis and prove of value in pyorrhea. Ill this respect they may be compared with vacciilrs a11d diet vitamiuw which benefit dental conditions indirectly by their actiorl on the general ec~momy. The editor does not allude to Dr. Kowlett’s contribution lvhich is sun~t~rtl Radiation \\.itli the I’.\‘. rays affords il Yalllabl(~ up by its author as follows: therapeutic means itr the treatment OF many itlflammatory conditions of thy mouth but does not take the place of in~trumcwtal trratment nor tlors it do It rnitst br visualized as a useful irtl.jltnct away with the need of antiseptics. to the basic methods as shown by the fact that it has shortened the time of convalewence and has turned prospective failures into successes. Tlr has cured no case of pyorrhea wit,h lipht ;11or1(~ hllt this has beer1 a pAat aiti to dhcr
Ill(‘RSll?-t’S.
SeasoaaJ Variation
in Growth
of Children.
Section on Prevent,ive aud Iutlustrial ~Itd. Assn., May 20, 1927.
1Iavr11 Emmon. 3Iedieinr
I’rocwdi~tgs of and Public IItwlth, ,\III.
Emerson reports from studies in growth of children in 13ostotl. ‘l’or.otiIo and IIonolulu. He finds children increasing in weight very slightly. 01’ YIImainitlg stationary, or even dropping below their previous xeight brt~twr Dreernber and April. 111 1naq instances infectious diseases, nlol’e especially ititlurnzii iill(l mcaslt s OI* scarlet fever, developed soon after this loss in weight begall. It was rtot always apparent whether this loss in weight was the cause or ~11~. effect of the intercurrent disease, though the impression gained by th:, CI~ITC’:~ was that the diseases took hold when the child had hwn reduced somewhat bj possible climatic influences, though the author thought that fatigutb was aI fault.
Ultraviolet
Light
in Dentistry.
Syuiposium
ant1 etlitorial
iii
‘HIP
lh~rrliil
Siw
geon, October 8, 192i. 111 this issue the original articles are contributed by Professor Haly, Dr. 11. L. B’alkner, and Dr. A. E. Kowlctt, kvhile the summary is by the scietltifio editor of t,he journal. The education of the dentist, differs chiefly from that of the physician in being more practical, as he must tlevote at least two of his undergraduate years in workin g OII the living human subject. But for I his wry reason he remains somewhat aloof from general treatment of his patir>ut alltl has not, yet been much intrigued by such subjects as light treatmr*nt. The rays of the sun are not expected to act on conwaled structures like 1hcb teeth and there seems no valid I’~SOII ~vh~-they suffer any privation if actiiiics 1’ass arc withheld. Professor Haly who makes this point adds that helleiits from the rays if any must accrue to the organism as a whole. Severthc~lrss. Dr. Zl’alkner, like some other practicin p dentists, believes that the loca.1 application of the rays may beurfit the puriis and prove of value in pyorrhea. Ill this respect they may be compared with vacciilrs a11d diet vitamiuw which benefit dental conditions indirectly by their actiorl on the general ec~momy. The editor does not allude to Dr. Kowlett’s contribution lvhich is sun~t~rtl Radiation \\.itli the I’.\‘. rays affords il Yalllabl(~ up by its author as follows: therapeutic means itr the treatment OF many itlflammatory conditions of thy mouth but does not take the place of in~trumcwtal trratment nor tlors it do It rnitst br visualized as a useful irtl.jltnct away with the need of antiseptics. to the basic methods as shown by the fact that it has shortened the time of convalewence and has turned prospective failures into successes. Tlr has cured no case of pyorrhea wit,h lipht ;11or1(~ hllt this has beer1 a pAat aiti to dhcr
Ill(‘RSll?-t’S.