[Discussion on focal infection assessment and the suggestions of R. Zuhrt and U. Jurkschat].

From the viewpoint of dental practice, the problem under discussion is concerned to a lesser extent with the elucidation of a pathogenetic principle than with biologically and medically incontestable ways of thinking and acting in the actual case. For this purpose, a better integration of the own specialty with the totality of medical science and the development of a systematics of orientation are imperative.