The Pathology of Dental Infections and Its Relation to General Diseases (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Pathology of Dental Infections and Its Relation to General DiseasesIn the year 1905 a committee of dentists of Toronto was formed to communicate with the manufacturers of the tooth preparations then on the market to ascertain the composition of each, because they believed that a dentist should not recommend any preparation of which he did not know the ingredients.Finding there was no satisfaction to be obtained in this direction as to the formulæ of these preparations, arrangements were made to have them chemically analyzed, thus ascertaining that in most of the samples were ingredients which should not exist in an ideal mouth preparation.The Canadian Oral Prophylactic Association was then organized to have manufactured preparations which should contain nothing which was not beneficial.After much consideration and consultation a paste was manufactured under the registered name "Hutax" (meaning mouth health). Later a powder was placed on the market, and last a tooth brush.These articles are the result of frequent consultations with many of the leading practitioners, not only in Toronto, but of the Dominion of Canada and the United States.The shareholders of the Canadian Oral Prophylactic Association originally subscribed$5.00 each for "the good of the cause," and the charter of incorporation provides that the profits are to be expended for educational and philanthropic purposes, such as (a) bringing prominently before the public important information, which the dentist has, as to the influence of conditions of the mouth on the general health. (b)Care of the teeth of the poor, (c)Assisting the indigent in the profession of dentistry. Thus no director or shareholder receives directly or indirectly any dividends or other remuneration.Every dentist may recommend "Hutax" preparations with a confident consciousness that there is nothing better on the market, and that the profits will be utilized f…