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Correctable Systemic Disorders Indicated by Presence of Salivary Calculus
Salivary calculus is the result of a systemic acidosis resulting from glandular deficiencies that impair fat metabolism. Both the medical and dental professions in general consider pyorrhea alveolaris as a disease and treat it primarily from the local disease angle. That is wrong. Pyorrhea is but a single symptom of a systemic disease caused by glandular abnormalities. That which follows is based on observations during over forty years of general dental practice, and on over thirty years of special attention paid to certain aspects rarely if ever commented on in connection with dental calculus.