Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . between the toothand that projection of gum tissue. We see similar growth of gum tissue where fillings are left roughand overhanging the gingival border of proximal cavities, also frompoor fitting bands, accumulations of tartar, etc. A few cases havebeen reported where the growths of gum tissue became cancerous. Fig. 16.—Represents the occlusal aspect of a similar case. Here decay occurred in both bicuspids only. Fillings were placed Fig. 10. Fig. 11. which merely included the contact points, leaving the surface slightlyflattened, which
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . between the toothand that projection of gum tissue. We see similar growth of gum tissue where fillings are left roughand overhanging the gingival border of proximal cavities, also frompoor fitting bands, accumulations of tartar, etc. A few cases havebeen reported where the growths of gum tissue became cancerous. Fig. 16.—Represents the occlusal aspect of a similar case. Here decay occurred in both bicuspids only. Fillings were placed Fig. 10. Fig. 11. which merely included the contact points, leaving the surface slightlyflattened, which made it possible for food to crowd in with the tumor-like hypertrophies of gum tissue shown. Because of the food crowd-ing annoyance the use of this side was abandoned, which further ag- 612 THE DENTAL REVIEW. gravated the trouble. The remedy is the same as for the previous case. Figs. 17-18 are pictures of the labial and lingual sides of a case inwhich contact is lost between centrals. Originally these teeth overlapped each other. In a laudable ef-. Fig. 12. Fig. 13. fort to make fillings that would not show on the mesial surfaces wheredecay had occurred at contact points wide separation was made. Bythe careless use of separator the principal fibers of the peridental mem-brane were torn from the cementurn on the mesial side of the rightcentral. The proof of this is that the teeth did not return together buthave since separated further until now, at the end of two years, apyorrhea pocket exists which involves the entire mesial and most ofthe labial and lingual of the root of the right central.
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