. Roentgenographic diagnosis of dental infection in systemic diseases . Figure 32a. of our universities and had been referred to mefor treatment of neuritis of the arm. He was un-der treatment elsewhere for high blood-pressure,which I thought was of the same toxic origin asthe neuritis. Suspecting dental infection, I madethe radiographs which showed the area of infec-tion. I most strongly urged treatment either byextracting the affected teeth or by applicationsmade through the root-canals. The dentist, how-ever, found the teeth healthy according to his 58 ROENTGENOGRAPHS DIAGNOSIS tests and re
. Roentgenographic diagnosis of dental infection in systemic diseases . Figure 32a. of our universities and had been referred to mefor treatment of neuritis of the arm. He was un-der treatment elsewhere for high blood-pressure,which I thought was of the same toxic origin asthe neuritis. Suspecting dental infection, I madethe radiographs which showed the area of infec-tion. I most strongly urged treatment either byextracting the affected teeth or by applicationsmade through the root-canals. The dentist, how-ever, found the teeth healthy according to his 58 ROENTGENOGRAPHS DIAGNOSIS tests and refused credence to the x-telj was before the general recognition of thissource of systemic infection and so the doctorwas allowed to go from bad to worse until he wasin a desperate condition in the Battle Creek Sani-tarium. There he met a dentist who believed the. Figure 32b. Figure 32c. story told by the radiographs. A number ofterribly abscessed teeth were extracted with im-mediate and marked constitutional benefit, but onhis return to New York the radiograph (Figure32b) showed other infected areas remaining inthe upper jaw from which all the teeth had beenextracted and in a few weeks he died of extraction of all the infected teeth, I be-lieve, would have saved this useful life. He wasonly 56 years old. OF DENTAL INFECTION 59 Figure .!2c is of a lady with eigh blood-pressure, seldom lower than 220, and with auricularfibrillation and occasional syncope—altogether
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