. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . d another, untilhis friends took him to the hospital that he might recover from deliriumtremens. In due time he recovered from his delirium and as soon as hedid. he complained of the toothache. A dentist was called in. He ex-amined the mouth and found nothing wrong with the teeth. It happens,however, that this particular dentist is a radiodontist of no mean ability,and, so he asked to be permitted to make a radiograph of the region wherethe pain seemed to be located. This wras granted promptly—though at thetime all this occurred ver
. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . d another, untilhis friends took him to the hospital that he might recover from deliriumtremens. In due time he recovered from his delirium and as soon as hedid. he complained of the toothache. A dentist was called in. He ex-amined the mouth and found nothing wrong with the teeth. It happens,however, that this particular dentist is a radiodontist of no mean ability,and, so he asked to be permitted to make a radiograph of the region wherethe pain seemed to be located. This wras granted promptly—though at thetime all this occurred very few radiographs of teeth were being made—for the physicians in charge of the case were helpless. Figure 464 was made and shows a carious cavity in the distal of alower first molar! The case was simply one of pulpitis! There are doubt- 422 APPENDIX less those who will say that the cavity should have been discoveredwithout the aid of the radiograph, by instrumentation. Perhaps, but, thefact remains, it was not. And so impressed were the medical men with.
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