. The principles and practice of dental surgery. roots of teeth; from thence it extends tothe other teeth. The rapidity of its progress depends on theage, state of the general health, temperament and habit of bodyof the individual, and the character of the local irritants whichhave given rise to it. It is always more rapid in persons ad-dicted to the free use of spirituous liquors, and in individuals inwhom there exists a scorbutic tendency; or who have sufieredfrom venereal disease, or from the constitutional effects of amercurial treatment used to cure this or other diseases. The inflammatio
. The principles and practice of dental surgery. roots of teeth; from thence it extends tothe other teeth. The rapidity of its progress depends on theage, state of the general health, temperament and habit of bodyof the individual, and the character of the local irritants whichhave given rise to it. It is always more rapid in persons ad-dicted to the free use of spirituous liquors, and in individuals inwhom there exists a scorbutic tendency; or who have sufieredfrom venereal disease, or from the constitutional effects of amercurial treatment used to cure this or other diseases. The inflammation may be confined to the gums of two or threeteeth, or it may extend to the gums of all the teeth, in one orboth jaws. As the disease advances, the gums begin to recede from the necks of the teeth, and the al-FiG. IGO. veoli to waste, and the teeth, as they lose their support, loosenand ultimately drop out. InFig. 160 is represented a casein which nearly one-half of theroots of the lower incisors havebecome exposed by this devas-tating INFLAMMATION OF THE GUMS. 459 But the loss of the teeth, though it puts a stop to the localdisease, is not the only bad effect that results from it. Consti-tutional symptoms often supervene, more vital organs becomeimplicated, and the health of the general system is sometimesvery seriously impaired. Hence, the improvement often ob-served after the loss of the teeth, in the general health of per-sons whose mouths have for a long time been affected with thisdisease. No condition of the mouth has a greater tendency todeteriorate its secretions, and impair the functions of mastica-tion and digestion than the one now under consideration. In forming an opinion of the injury likely to result from thedisease, the dentist should be governed not only by the healthand age of the patient, and the local causes concerned in its pro-duction ; but he should also endeavor to ascertain whether it isconnected with a constitutional tendency, or is purely a
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