Interstitial gingivitis and pyorrhoea alveolaris.

  • Talbot, Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon), 1847-1924.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Interstitial gingivitis and pyorrhoea alveolaris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In 1740 H. A. Fauchard ^ (while recognizing the disease in all its essential features and describing its principal symptoms) advanced no theory as to its origin. In 1778 M. Jourdain ^ advanced the opinion that the disease was of scorbutic origin. In 1821 L. Kaecker ^ discussed the disorder in an essay on the devastations of the gums and alveolar processes. In 1822 M. Joirac* (in a discussion of the disease), while advancing no theory as to its origin, called it ''pyorrhoea inter- alveolo-dentaire.'' In 1860 Marshall de Calve ^ advanced the opinion that the disorder was of hereditary origin. In 1867 Magitot, discussing the disorder, advanced the opinion that the gum, being in all cases only attacked subse- quently, is not the original seat of the lesion. In his opinion systemic disorders like gout, rheumatism, albuminuria, diabetes and angemia had an influence. BonwilP during the same year expressed the opinion that the disorder was due to thinness of the alveolar process between the teeth, thus depriving the peridental membrane and gum tissue of proper support. The want of proper articulation of the teeth also exerted an influence. In 1870 Brown ascribed the disorder to serumal calculus. In 1875 John T. Riggs, after whom the disorder is frequently called, entitled it (in a paper read before the American Academy of Dental Surgery) suppurative inflammation of the gums and absorption of the gums and alveolar process. During the same year Scheif ^ of Vienna entitled the disorder periostitis dentalis. He was of the opinion that it originated from external irritation through mechanical, thermic and chemic changes. The real origin of the disorder was, in his opinion, very often obscure. He doubted, however, the influence of rheumatism. ^Independent Dental Journal, 1875. * Philadelphia Journal of Medical and Physical Science, 1821. ' International Dental Journal, Vol. XIII. * Journal of the American Medical Association. * Journal of the American Medical Association. « Dental Cosmos, Vol. XXIV. ■ Wiener Med. Presse, Vol. XVI.