The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . osteum and edge of thealveolus, and implicating the osseous walls ; it grows up between and b^osens the neighboring teeth,whifh it displaces and envelopes in its structure. It is of two kinds ; simple and ma- hgiiant. The Simple Epulis is a fibrous tu-mor; the Malignant is usually myeloid—if the term malignant can be applied to that form of tumor ; but it is also occasionally is most fre-quently met with in thelower jaw (Fig. 514). I have, however, seenseveral instances of its sp
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . osteum and edge of thealveolus, and implicating the osseous walls ; it grows up between and b^osens the neighboring teeth,whifh it displaces and envelopes in its structure. It is of two kinds ; simple and ma- hgiiant. The Simple Epulis is a fibrous tu-mor; the Malignant is usually myeloid—if the term malignant can be applied to that form of tumor ; but it is also occasionally is most fre-quently met with in thelower jaw (Fig. 514). I have, however, seenseveral instances of its springing from thealveolus of the upper jaw (Fig. 515). Itappears chiefly ^o be occasioned hy the irrita-tion of decayed stumps, and hence occursmore frequently in connection with the molar than with the incisor this disease has occasionally been seen in children, it seldomoccurs before the adult age, and then may be developed at an^—even upto an advanced—period of life. It is seen then as often among femalesas males. A flbrous epulis appears as a red, smo. th, and lobulated. Fig. -Epulis of LowerJaw.
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