What Value Has Argenti Nitras as a Therapeutic Agent in Dentistry?

The object of this paper, and the presentation of these patients and specimens, is to bring the subject to the notice of the profession more fully, and stimulate to further investigation, and, if found practicable, to bring it into more frequent use.Allow me briefly to take you over some of the way I have come in my study and experiments.Every observing practitioner who has had a few years' experience has seen teeth that have begun to decay on the labial or buccal surfaces, then, from some cause, the decayed portion has taken on a very dark color, and the progress of the decay has ceased.The same conditions have been observed in approximal cavities when the adjoining teeth have been extracted; also when, by mas tication, the teeth have been worn off till approximal cavities have become exposed.In some mouths a large number of such cases may be noticed.