Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth

Dr. Robinson's Fibrous and Textile Metallic Filling is a shredded metallic alloy, mostly tin, and has the appearance of woven or felt foil. It is prepared in a machine invented...

Dr. E. T. Darby: "I have always said that tin was one of the best filling-materials we have, and believe more teeth could be saved with it than with gold. I have restored a whol...

"Besides gold, the only material which can be used with any hope of permanent success is tin foil. Some dentists call it _silver_, and a tooth which cannot be filled with it can...

For the last ten years the writer has been using tin at the cervical margin of proximal cavities in bicuspids and molars, especially in deep cavities (now an accepted practice),...

Tin has been recommended for temporary fillings in sensitive cavities, because it is soft and easily packed in contact with the walls, has therapeutic value, and after a time, w...

In some mouths tin does not discolor, but retains a clean, unpolished tin color, yet when there is a sesquioxid of the metal formed, fillings present a grayish appearance. In th...

White caries, the most formidable variety known, may be produced by nitric acid, and in these cases all the components of the tooth are acted upon and disintegrated as far as th...

The largest and most complete dental library in the world is owned by Dr. H. J. McKellops, of St. Louis. Upon his cheerful invitation, the writer visited that "Mecca," and throu...

Moses, who was born 1600 B.C., mentions tin, and history records its use 500 B.C., but not for filling teeth; much later on, the Ph[oe]nicians took it from Cornwall, England, to...

Temporary Fillings--Sensitive Cavities--Integrity--Tin with Sponge, Fibrous, and Crystallized Gold--Tin at Cervical Margin--Filling Completed with Gold--Gutta-Percha and Tin-- O...

White Caries--Gold and Tin as Conductors--Wearing Away of Fillings--Poor Foil--Buccal Cavities--Number of Years Fillings Last--Strips or Tapes for Filling--Number 10 Foil-- Form...

Dr. Robinson's Fibrous and Textile Metallic Filling--Tin and Gold combined (Tg), Methods of Preparing and Using--Lining Cavities with Tin--Tin and Amalgam--Plastic Tin--Stannous...