. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. 12) .—Radicular odontome from human subject, a represents the naturalsize of the specimen. (After Salter.) known specimen described by Salter (Fig. 121), in which thetumour is clearly connected with the roots. The outer layerof the odontoma is composed of cementum; within this isa layer of dentine, deficient in the lower part of the tumour,and inside this is a nucleus of calcified pulp. A radicular odontome (Fig. 122) described by Sir JohnTomes in 1863, and redescribed by Mr. C. S. Tomes m 1872,consist
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. 12) .—Radicular odontome from human subject, a represents the naturalsize of the specimen. (After Salter.) known specimen described by Salter (Fig. 121), in which thetumour is clearly connected with the roots. The outer layerof the odontoma is composed of cementum; within this isa layer of dentine, deficient in the lower part of the tumour,and inside this is a nucleus of calcified pulp. A radicular odontome (Fig. 122) described by Sir JohnTomes in 1863, and redescribed by Mr. C. S. Tomes m 1872,consisted of a mass invested by cementum ; inside this casingIS a shell of dentine; the tubules radiate outwards and aredisposed with some regularity: this dentine was deficient at 220 ODONTOMAS the distal end of the tumour; its interior was filled withan ill-defined osseous material. I removed an odontome from a boy 15 years of accurate diagnosis was made before the operation with. Fig. 122.—Radicular odontome, removed from the upper jaw of a managed 41 by Mr. Hare. (iV«^. size.) {After Sir John Tomes.) the assistance of the X-rays (Figs. 123 and 124). Thetumour consisted of bone resembling that which forms thealveolar borders of the jaws, embedded in fibrous shown in the drawings, the second left mandibular molar
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