. Dental and oral radiography; a textbook for students and practitioners of dentistry . B. C. Fig. 67.—A shows an upper bicuspid tooth with an alveolar abscess at its rootapex. It will be noted that the root canal is improperly filled. B shows the sametooth about two months after it was treated and the root canal properly filled. Therarefied area about the apex has greatly decreased in size. C shows the same toothabout six weeks later. The abscess area has entirely disappeared and the bonestructure about the apex appears to be normal. openings as the mental foramina, and where they aremarkedly
. Dental and oral radiography; a textbook for students and practitioners of dentistry . B. C. Fig. 67.—A shows an upper bicuspid tooth with an alveolar abscess at its rootapex. It will be noted that the root canal is improperly filled. B shows the sametooth about two months after it was treated and the root canal properly filled. Therarefied area about the apex has greatly decreased in size. C shows the same toothabout six weeks later. The abscess area has entirely disappeared and the bonestructure about the apex appears to be normal. openings as the mental foramina, and where they aremarkedly circumscribed, that is having a distinct andabrupt line of demarcation between the dark area and itssurrounding tissue, we can in nearly every case, even ifa clinical history be lacking, make the positive diagnosisof alveolar abscess. (See Figs. 64, 65 and 66.) 130 DENTAL AlStD ORAL RADIOGRAPHY Not infrequently, dentists are prone to disregard suchevidence, as these areas are often to be fomid about theapices of teeth giving no inflammatory symptoms. How-ever, in the light of our
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