PRESIDENT COOKE:—Dr. Gillett will show a warm-air apparatus.
DR. GILLETT:—I was prompted by the note on the card, saying that
an apparatus for obtunding dentine would be shown, to bring up this
apparatus, which some of you have seen before, as Dr. Brackett
exhibited it at the last meeting of the American Academy of Dental
Science. This is an apparatus for obtunding sensitive dentine, of which
there are but a few of its kind in the country, and this particular
one was sent to Dr. Brackett by Dr. Bogue, of New York. I have used it
some for the last two or three weeks, and find that it is possible to
produce very good results without hurting the patient. Those who have
used Dr. Waite's obtundent, and have gotten satisfactory results with
it, will perhaps appreciate my explanation in this way. I have used
that with considerable success, and like it very well, and I find that
I can do the same work with this apparatus, with the additional gain
that its application is not painful, as a rule. It is simply a means of
obtaining dryness in the cavity by the use of a continuous current of
warm air.
H. L. UPHAM, D.M.D.,
_Editor Harvard Odontological Society_.