This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of September, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - [3211], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.) Dr. [3211].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:35 to 3:55 P. M. Eastern War Time. New York, N.Y.
1. GC: You will have before you the research field in dentistry pertaining to chemical preparations and patents, and dental abnormalities. You will answer the questions submitted by Dr. [3211], dentist, present in this room, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes. If this information is to be obtained for individual use, it may be given from one approach, if it is to be for universal use, it is another approach. If it will be indicated as to which of these the entity wishes to subscribe, then we may give information as to the activities for individual application or that as may apply for the universal knowledge as may be indicated regarding dentistry or care of the teeth.
3. (Q) Regarding the universal approach: Is it true, as it is thought, that the intake of certain form and percentage of fluorine in drinking water causes mottled enamel of the teeth? (A) This, to be sure, is true; but this is also untrue unless there is considered the other properties with which such is associated in drinking water. If there are certain percents of fluorine with free limestone, we will find it is beneficial. If there are certain percents with indications of magnesium, sulphur and the like, we will have one motley, another decaying at the gum.
4. (Q) Does too much fluorine cause decay of teeth, and where is the borderline? (A) Read what has just been indicated. It depends upon the combinations, more than it does upon the quantity of fluorine itself. But, to be sure, too much fluorine in the water would not make so much in the teeth as it would in other elements or activities which may be reflected in teeth; not as the cause of same but producing a disturbance that may contribute to the condition.
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But where there is iron or sulphur or magnesium, be careful. To perfectly understand it would be preferable to understand these: There are areas within the United States - such as in some portions of Texas, portions in Arizona, others in Wyoming - where the teeth are seldom ever decayed. Study the water there, the quantity of fluorine there, the lack of iron or sulphur or the proportions of sulphur; that is in the regular water. There are many sections, of course, where fluorine added to the water, with many other chemicals would be most beneficial. There are others where, even a small quantity added would be very detrimental. Hence it cannot be said positively that this or that quantity should be added save in a certain degree of other chemicals being combined with same in the drinking water. But there are some places where you have few or none. For, here we will find a great quantity of either iron or sulphur, while in some places in the West - as in the central portion of Texas in certain vicinities, you won't find any decay. Certain cases in the North Western portion of Arizona, or close within some parts of Cheyenne, Wyoming, will not be found to show decay - if the water that is used is from the normal source of supply. But where there have been contributions from other supplies of water, there will be found variations in the supply of magnesium and other chemicals as from the flowing over, or arsenic and such - these cause destruction to the teeth.
5. (Q) What is the best manner of protecting teeth against decay? (A) Keeping the best physical health of the body and protecting it from iron or iron products that may become a part of the body-physical in one manner or another. These are needed, but when their proportions are varied the teeth do not show the proper relationships - when you lose that quantity of iron needed.
6. (Q) Could the diet give the required amount of fluorine for prevention of decay? (A) It could aid but depending upon the water and other conditions - there's no definite.
7. (Q) What other factors are there that control and have an effect on mottled enamel and decay of teeth? (A) The general health of the body and the chemical
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processes that are a part of the digestive system, the process of digestion, the chemical processes through same, and the blood stream. These, of course, are the processes within the body itself.
8. (Q) How can this condition be prevented in children's teeth? (A) By keeping a proper balance in the diet and in the protection from the ordinary causes - which are the lack of cleanliness.
9. (Q) As I have patented dimethyl cellulose for use in a dentifrice, what is the best chemical combination to use same in a liquid form? (A) This depends upon what it is used for, whether it is to be for the gums or merely for the protection of the teeth themselves. If it is to be as a protection, then the use of those properties found in what is known as toothache bark [Prickly Ash Bark*] will supply sufficient elements not only to protect gums but to form a resistance against many of those forms of diseases that attack teeth and gums. * [9/15/43 GD's note: Prickly Ash Bark is the principal active ingredient in IPSAB.]
10. (Q) What chemical preparation, or should any form of fluorine be best for desensitizing the necks of teeth that are so sensitive, and how applied? (A) This would have to be applied locally if it is to be used. This is not best to be used in a dentifrice because of quite a variation that is found in the various districts where the processes in a dentifrice have their effect upon various conditions.
11. (Q) Is the paste of sodium fluorine and lime that I have prepared safe to use for desensitizing erosion cavities, and could we seal it in cavities for desensitizing same, for drilling out decay and preparing teeth for restoration? (A) It could be used in ninety percent of the conditions. About ten percent it would not be used in, for where the causes of the decay are from other sources - as from certain types of temperature in the body or fevers or properties that have been given in the form of drugs carrying certain quantities of other elements, as in the sulpha drugs, it will be harmful. But it could be used in ninety percent of the cases.
12. (Q) Is fluorine - i.e., in its liquid form - safe to use for cavities in children's teeth or adult teeth for painless drilling, as used in my office? (A) This would be safe, as a general thing, yes - would be safe.
13. (Q) What is the best and safest method to desensitize
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cavities in drilling teeth and for removing of decay in teeth, both in children and adults? (A) Cloves, as well as a combination of Oil of Cloves, with more potent factors, are the ones to use, and are better than most of those used in the present.
14. (Q) What are they? (A) Those that are used in the present.
15. (Q) Should drinking water in certain localities be prepared with a percentage of fluorine for prevention of decay and for preventing mottled enamel in teeth? If so, how and where? (A) This would have to be tested in the various districts themselves, much as has been indicated. There's scarcely an individual place in Ohio that it wouldn't be helpful, for it will get rid of and add to that condition to cause a better activity in the thyroid glands; while, for general use, in such a district as Illinois (say in the extreme northern portion) it would be harmful. These would necessarily require testing, according to the quantities of other conditions or minerals or elements in the water.
16. (Q) Has the liquid dentifrice consisting of dimethyl cellulose and fluorine combination, that I gave to Dr. Samuel Miller of N.Y. University to be used for experimental purposes, been given a fair trial, and what was the results? (A) It hasn't been given a fair trial. It's only been looked over and laid aside.
17. (Q) Should this preparation be perfected for this use, and how? (A) This may be perfected for its use, and as indicated can be in the main, but there are some districts in which it will be harmful.
18. (Q) Are there any manufacturers using dimethyl cellulose under any other trade name in a toothpaste or liquid dentifrice: if so, who are they? (A) Most of them are using it in one form or another.
19. (Q) In toothpaste or liquid? (A) In toothpaste and in liquid.
20. (Q) Who are they? (A) We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file