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[Name of John Mankey Riggs (1810–85), U.S. dentist, who described the condition in 1876 (Pennsylvania Jrnl. Dental Sci. III. 99–104).]
Riggs'(s) (also erron. Rigg's) disease: a disease of the tissues adjacent to the teeth, characterized by suppuration and inflammation of the gums.
1877Dental Cosmos XIX. 70 What do I know about Riggs's disease (so-called).—How does it happen that this title has come into existence? Ibid. 185 The trouble which has come to be called Riggs's disease has not hitherto responded to..treatment. 1887C. S. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. (ed. 3) 695 The discharge, which is a prominent symptom in the more acute cases, suggested the name pyorrhoea alveolaris, which has passed into general currency, while the warm advocacy of a particular form of treatment, and the consequent attention drawn to its advocate in connection with the disease, has led to the frequent use of the term Rigg's disease. 1900‘Mark Twain’ in McClure's Mag. Jan. 290 If you don't know what Riggs's Disease of the Teeth is, the dentist will tell you. 1923K. H. Thoma Teeth, Diet & Health vi. 78 Other names for pyorrhea are Rigg's disease, receding gums, and pericementoclasia, the latter being the latest scientific term. |