Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . ey were denuded back to the bone,and the entire external table was de-stroyed to the gingival margin. Theapices were gone, thus destroying theblood and nerve operation was done through the mouth, and con-sisted in making an incision down through the center of thetumor and evacuating the contents of the cyst. The teethwere removed without difficulty. Such portions of bone aswere thought to be dead were removed. The subsequenthistory was uneventful; repair fol-lowed rapidly. Figure 120 is a case of a y


Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . ey were denuded back to the bone,and the entire external table was de-stroyed to the gingival margin. Theapices were gone, thus destroying theblood and nerve operation was done through the mouth, and con-sisted in making an incision down through the center of thetumor and evacuating the contents of the cyst. The teethwere removed without difficulty. Such portions of bone aswere thought to be dead were removed. The subsequenthistory was uneventful; repair fol-lowed rapidly. Figure 120 is a case of a young-woman, aged thirty years, who hada tumor on the external surface ofthe maxilla immediately above thelateral and cuspid. The tumor wasabout the size of the half of a splitEnglish walnut. A diagnosis ofcyst was made, since there had beenno inflammatory symptoms fromthe onset of the development of thetumefaction. The operation included an incision into the tumorthrough the buccal sulcus of the oral cavity, going directlyinto the cyst. The material found Avas similar to that in. Fig. 117.—Cyst fromErupting Tooth. CYSTS FKOM ROOTS OF DEVELOPED TEETH 299 the preceding case, being mucilaginous and roots of the two teeth involved were found projectinginto the cavity, as may be observed by looking at the X-raypicture. The entire external bony wall and soft tissues


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