The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. -Epulis of Fig. .—Epulis of Upper Jaw,hanging down so as to overlap theLower Jaw. 458 DISEASES OF THE JAWS AND THEIR APPEXUAGES. tumor, at first hard and semi-elastic, like the ordinary structure of thegum, but after a time softening by disintegration, and ulcerating on thesurface, with a purulent or sanious discharge. The fibrous variety-appears simply to be a circumscribed and rapidl}^ growing hypertrophyof the gum. Treatment.—The treatment of epulis consists in tlie
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. -Epulis of Fig. .—Epulis of Upper Jaw,hanging down so as to overlap theLower Jaw. 458 DISEASES OF THE JAWS AND THEIR APPEXUAGES. tumor, at first hard and semi-elastic, like the ordinary structure of thegum, but after a time softening by disintegration, and ulcerating on thesurface, with a purulent or sanious discharge. The fibrous variety-appears simply to be a circumscribed and rapidl}^ growing hypertrophyof the gum. Treatment.—The treatment of epulis consists in tlie removal of thewhole of the mass and of that portion of the alveolus from wliicli itsprings. As it evinces a great tendency to reproduction, it must notsimply be shaved off the bones, but a portion of the osseous structuremust be removed as well; unless this be done, the growth will to a cer-tainty be reproduced. In all ordinary cases of simple epulis, the removalmay be done from the inside of the mouth without the necessity ofmaking any incisions through the cheek. In very large masses of epulis,more particularly of the m
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