. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . Fig. 207 Fig. 208 Fig. 207. Pericemental abscess at apex of upper cuspid. The crowned first bicuspid was sus-pected, but the radiograph shows an abscess at apex of the cuspid, which was sound and alive. (See Fig. 459A.) Fig. 20S. The light area to which the arrow points is a pericemental abscess. pulp is still alive, a fact which renders a true diagnosis sometimes quitecomplex. For example, a patient might present with a well defined fis-tula appearing between the roots of two teeth, one of which may beperfectly sound, whereas the o
. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . Fig. 207 Fig. 208 Fig. 207. Pericemental abscess at apex of upper cuspid. The crowned first bicuspid was sus-pected, but the radiograph shows an abscess at apex of the cuspid, which was sound and alive. (See Fig. 459A.) Fig. 20S. The light area to which the arrow points is a pericemental abscess. pulp is still alive, a fact which renders a true diagnosis sometimes quitecomplex. For example, a patient might present with a well defined fis-tula appearing between the roots of two teeth, one of which may beperfectly sound, whereas the other might be just as certainly pulpless. Itwould be quite reasonable for the operator to conclude that an abscessoriginated from infection coming from the root of the pulpless tooth, andto treat such a tooth, it might be necessary to remove important and wellconstructed work, such as an inlay or a bridge abutment. A radiograph,however, will disclose that the abscess involves the pericementum of theliving tooth, and thus the dentist would be saved the morti
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