. Dental electro-therapeutics. trode and increase its conducting area, a larger currentwill be required to sterilize the affected part, 5 or 6 ma. forfive minutes will often be tolerated, and is advisable. Thiswill relieve the trismus considerably in twenty-four hours,and by repeating the treatment daily, with frequent use of anantiseptic mouth wash, the inflammation will subside, and thetrismus be reduced to such an extent that in a few days it is 270 ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS IN DENTISTRY often possible to operate for the permanent relief of thecondition. A case in point recently under treatment
. Dental electro-therapeutics. trode and increase its conducting area, a larger currentwill be required to sterilize the affected part, 5 or 6 ma. forfive minutes will often be tolerated, and is advisable. Thiswill relieve the trismus considerably in twenty-four hours,and by repeating the treatment daily, with frequent use of anantiseptic mouth wash, the inflammation will subside, and thetrismus be reduced to such an extent that in a few days it is 270 ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS IN DENTISTRY often possible to operate for the permanent relief of thecondition. A case in point recently under treatment is typical andlends itself in support of the writers conviction that thesecases of trismus are entirely due to nerve reflex, either directlyby the influence of the inflammatory irritant on the vaso-neural circuit or indirectly by absorption of toxic products,or a combination of both these. A medical practitionerbrought a young lady in consultation for what he suspectedmight be pyorrhea. Glands of the neck on the right side had. Fig. 146.—Impacted third molar. been operated on twice, and another operation was impending;temperature was 100° to 101° at night; exceedingly nervous;very foul breath; teeth decayed in several parts of the mouthand hypersensitive; very marked trismus which had existedfor six months during which time limitation of movement hadvaried considerably; at this time a forefinger could just bepassed between the front teeth, the angle of the jaw on rightside enlarged. A large septic pocket existed behind the secondmandibular molar through which the crown of the third molarcould be felt with a probe. Radiograph showed the third CHRONIC ALVEOLAR ABSCESS 271 molar placed horizontally against the crown of the secondmolar. (See Fig. 146). Treatment by ionic medication with zinc ions, as describedalready, improved the condition of trismus in five days, sothat it was possible to clean up the mouth generally; thetemperature became normal in two days after the first t
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