. Oral pathology and practice. A text-book for the use of students in dental colleges and a hand-book for dental practitioners. g into the pulp chamber when this is practicable, or to usesufficient time thoroughly to sterilize any fragments of remainingpulp tissue, and then to fill as best he can, using some plasticmaterial for the pulp chamber. CHAPTER XLVIII. HYPERCEMENTOSIS. Hypercementosis is the analogue of hyperostosis, or exostosis, ofbone. Technically it is a tumor, but always of benign growth. It is an hypertrophy of the cementum, and has its origin in some formof irritation that is j
. Oral pathology and practice. A text-book for the use of students in dental colleges and a hand-book for dental practitioners. g into the pulp chamber when this is practicable, or to usesufficient time thoroughly to sterilize any fragments of remainingpulp tissue, and then to fill as best he can, using some plasticmaterial for the pulp chamber. CHAPTER XLVIII. HYPERCEMENTOSIS. Hypercementosis is the analogue of hyperostosis, or exostosis, ofbone. Technically it is a tumor, but always of benign growth. It is an hypertrophy of the cementum, and has its origin in some formof irritation that is just sufficient to stimulate the pericementum toan abnormal activity. (See Fig. 63.) It may be local, and affectbut one tooth, or the irritation and stimulus mav be so oeneral as to HYPERCEMENTOSIS. 223 induce an excessive deposit of cementum in some form upon all, ornearly all, the teeth of either jaw. (See Fig. 64.) It may evenbe more comprehensive than that, and involve the osseous have occurred in which hypercementosis and hyperostosisexisted together, with not only enlargement of the roots of all the. Hypercementosis of the Roots of a Lower Molar showing Stimulationof the Entire Pericemental Membrane. teeth, but of the whole alveolar process of the bone as well. Nodulesof exostosed bone may sometimes be felt along the alveolar portionsof the lower jaw especially, and these are apt to be associated withexpansion of the roots of the teeth from hypercementosis. (See Fig. 65.) Fig. 6a.
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