. The science and practice of dental surgery. removal(if all the tartar at one sitting. A few teethshould be treated at one time, and thosethat were cleared at the previous visitshould be carefully inspected, ui order thatany jjieces of calculus that were overlookedmay be removed. The pockets and inter-dental spaces are to be flushed out withhydrogen peroxide (vols. 15) by means of afine-nozzled syringe or atomizer. These canbe obtained with several nozzles of variousshapes, which can be detached for force of syring-ing removes anyforeign body, suchas food, loose frag-ments of


. The science and practice of dental surgery. removal(if all the tartar at one sitting. A few teethshould be treated at one time, and thosethat were cleared at the previous visitshould be carefully inspected, ui order thatany jjieces of calculus that were overlookedmay be removed. The pockets and inter-dental spaces are to be flushed out withhydrogen peroxide (vols. 15) by means of afine-nozzled syringe or atomizer. These canbe obtained with several nozzles of variousshapes, which can be detached for force of syring-ing removes anyforeign body, suchas food, loose frag-ments of tartar, andcollections of also distends thepockets, enablingthe operator to ob-tain a clearer viewof the root removal of thesub-gingival calculus isoften accompanied bypain; in that case it isadvisable to inject no-vocaine or some simi-lar local anaesthetic, orcocaine into the pockets,in 10 % trichloracetic acid and packed into thepockets for ten or fifteen minutes will enlargethem and render the calculi more Fig. 5/2. — Kadiographshowing absorption ofalveolus.(J. Lewin Payne.) introduce powderedCotton-wool soaked 509 At tlie same time it has a softening effect uponthe deposits, and constricts the gum tissue, solessening the haemorrhage. Salicylized cottonused in the same way and left for a day will alsohave this effect. Riggs advocated the scraping of the alveolar


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