Hand-book of dental anatomy and surgery for the use of students and practitioners by Smith John

Author:Smith, John
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: London : John Churchill & Sons
Published: 1864-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

partial, and manifest itself in the form of nodules or projections of various kinds upon the surface of the fang. The principal evil effect produced by it is pain, and this, is by no means confined to the seat of the dise'e, but may occur in the neighbourhood of other teeth, or in the chin, or cheeks, or even in localities still more distant from the exciting causdj Its detection is difficult, as no reliable indications of its presence are known. As it is generally, however, in diseased teeth that it commences, some suspicion ought always to attach to such teeth where unaccountable pain occurs in their vicinity, whether they themselves may suffer from tenderness or not. Here, again, extraction is the only remedy, and will be in all probability easier to perform early in the disease, because the deposit of new cement being originated by some irritation in the tooth, continues to increase so long as any irritation lasts ; and if of the nodular form, such deposit may fix the tooth more and more immovably in its socket, by each nodule making for itself a depression in the interior of the alveolar walls.

Such are the diseases by which the greatest loss of teeth is occasioned. In necrosis and exostosis, extraction, indeed, is perhaps the only

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