Dr. Frank L.
Argall
DENTAL PIONEER
Bio- Pen
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SURNAMES: BENT
Dr. Frank L. Argall was born in Cornwall, England, thirty-six years ago
this August (1888); came to the United States in 1869, and to
California in 1874 living meantime in New Jersey. Dr. Argall came
immediately to San Jose, and, after attending school two years at the
University of the Pacific, went into the office of Dr. J. N. Prather,
to study dentistry. In 1883 he opened a dental office, and has
since been engaged in active practice by himself. About three
years ago Dr. William J. Younger, of San Francisco, mad a very
important discovery in the science of dentistry by demonstrating the
feasibility of the transplantation of teeth. It consists of
boring out or preparing the cavity from which a tooth has been
extracted a decayed tooth, or from which a tooth has been lost by any
means, and inserting a healthy tooth, on which the pericementum, or
membranous covering, has not been destroyed. When the work is
properly done, even though the tooth transplanted may have been
extracted months or even years before, a health union at once begins to
take place with the organs of the alveolar cavity, and in a few months
the tooth becomes as solid and firmly attached as the natural teeth
which have never been disturbed. Some of these transplanted teeth
put in by Dr. Younger have been used over twelve years, and are a
perfect success. Within the past year Dr. Argall has given
special attention to this valuable new feature in dentistry, and has
performed several operations in transplanting teeth. A few months
since he extracted the superior left lateral incisor tooth, which was
too badly decayed to be filled, from the mouth of a young man, and in
its place implanted the corresponding tooth extracted from a lady’s
mouth nearly three months before. Nature began to form the union,
and in a short time the implanted tooth was nearly as firm as his
others. This wonderful discovery in dental science demonstrates
the tenacity of life possessed by the peridental membrane environing
the teeth. Dr. Argall also performs all classes of professional
dental work according to the most advanced methods of the science,
among which is building new crowns on healthy roots.
Dr. Argall is the fifth of eight living
brothers,two of whom are in Australia, and the rest in this
country. His mother resides in San Jose. Dr. Argall was
married June 27, 1888, to Miss Ella M. Bent, of San Jose.
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County,
California, Illustrated. - Edited by H.S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1888.
Transcribed by: Letisha Oddo Pg. 404/405
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