Principles and practice of operative dentistry . l suppurating teeth and roots,and a liberal use of antiseptic mouth-washes, like a saturated solution ofboric acid ; two to three per cent, solutions of carbolic acid ; the Thierschsolution (salicylic acid 4 parts, boric acid 12 parts, water 1000), or solutionsof listerine, borolyptol, pasteurine, or formol 1 to 100 of the forty per cent,solutions. Complete sterilization of the mouth and teeth, however, can never beattained by even the most rigid technique, but it may be so nearly approxi-mated as to greatly reduce the dangers from infection in
Principles and practice of operative dentistry . l suppurating teeth and roots,and a liberal use of antiseptic mouth-washes, like a saturated solution ofboric acid ; two to three per cent, solutions of carbolic acid ; the Thierschsolution (salicylic acid 4 parts, boric acid 12 parts, water 1000), or solutionsof listerine, borolyptol, pasteurine, or formol 1 to 100 of the forty per cent,solutions. Complete sterilization of the mouth and teeth, however, can never beattained by even the most rigid technique, but it may be so nearly approxi-mated as to greatly reduce the dangers from infection in those cases wherethe continuity of the soft tissues of the patient has to be broken. Sterilization of Instruments.—Instruments of every kind should bethoroughly sterilized before being used upon a patient. This may be mostefficiently done by boiling in water to which a small quantity of sodiumcarbonate has been added. All instruments which have been used about themouth of a patient should first be thoroughly scrubbed with warm water Fig. Dental mirror. and soap, rinsed, and placed in the sterilizer and boiled for at least five toten minutes. Fig. 259 shows a very neat and efficient sterilizer, manufacturedby the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company, which is sold at somoderate a price that every dentist can afford to possess one. When the instruments are removed from the sterilizer they should bewiped dry with a clean, sterile towel while they are still hot. By this methodthe instruments will not rust or tarnish. Mouth-mirrors are sometimesinjured by the boiling process. Ash & Son and the S. S. White Dental Manu-facturing Company supply a mirror (Fig. 260) which can be taken out of theframe, which makes it possible to sterilize this part of the instrument byplacing it in strong solutions of carbolic acid, while the frame may be safer method, however, is to boil these instruments like all others, andwhen the glass gives out replace it by a new one, which c
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