. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . at the end of four days. The patient returned one weekafter the third injection with no symptoms of her former trouble. Three and one-half months after the operation Tifl. 223. Fig. 22$ was made. It shows a most remarkable and gratifying condition. The abscess cavity is entirely filled with new bone. This new bone is as yet not quite as dense as the surrounding bone. ~ ,r , ., ,, , , ~ , , Case: Man of middle age had suffered obscure Tig. 224. neuralgic pains for about a month. Xone of the teeth on the affected side were tender to p
. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . at the end of four days. The patient returned one weekafter the third injection with no symptoms of her former trouble. Three and one-half months after the operation Tifl. 223. Fig. 22$ was made. It shows a most remarkable and gratifying condition. The abscess cavity is entirely filled with new bone. This new bone is as yet not quite as dense as the surrounding bone. ~ ,r , ., ,, , , ~ , , Case: Man of middle age had suffered obscure Tig. 224. neuralgic pains for about a month. Xone of the teeth on the affected side were tender to percussion 204 DEXTAL RADIOGRAPHY or pressure. A radiograph (Fig. 224) was made to learn whether or notthe canals of the upper second molar were filled. There was a very largeamalgam filling in this tooth. The radiograph does not show the roots ofthe molar well, but it does show a dark shadow between the second andthird molars just above the cervical margin of the filling in the distal ofthe second molar. On inquiry it was learned that the patient was in the. Fig. 224 Fig. 225 Fig. 224. The arrow points into a piece of wooden toothpick between the second and third 225. The upper arrow points to a piece of broach in the canal of the upper first lower arrow points to a piece of gutta-percha passing through a perforation to the distal. habit of using wooden toothpicks. Suspecting the shadow to be a pieceof toothpick, an attempt was made to remove it with explorers, canalpluggers and silk floss. The effort met with failure, but, feeling sure thatmy diagnosis was correct, the third molar was extracted. The piece oftoothpick adhered to the extracted tooth. There was an immediate andcomplete recovery from pain.* immediately after Fig. 224 appeared in the May. 1912. issue of Items of In-terest, Dr. C. Edmund Kells. Jr., wrote to me saying there must be some mistake,that wood was absolutely transparent to the X-rays, and that according to thehalftone, Fig. 224, t
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