Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . s nothing more than a large area of fibroustissue, the result of absorption of the lime salts of the bone, leav-ing the mesh of fibers, which occasionally come away with theextracted tooth. The pathologic state is here farther advancedthan in Fig. 1. In the center of this thickened mass is seena white area at D a breaking down of tissue. To the right and nearthe edge the tissue has broken down and an abscess formed. Tn ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIONS 639 1897, in an article read before the Section on Stomatology of theAmerican Medical Associat
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . s nothing more than a large area of fibroustissue, the result of absorption of the lime salts of the bone, leav-ing the mesh of fibers, which occasionally come away with theextracted tooth. The pathologic state is here farther advancedthan in Fig. 1. In the center of this thickened mass is seena white area at D a breaking down of tissue. To the right and nearthe edge the tissue has broken down and an abscess formed. Tn ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIONS 639 1897, in an article read before the Section on Stomatology of theAmerican Medical Association, I demonstrated the pathology ofthe disease from simple inflammation to the breaking down oftissue. The pathology here pictured in this series is illustrativeof that in all peridental abscesses. The following are illustrations magnified 480 diameters. Fig. 3 illustrates gum tissue with round cell infiltration due to irrita-tion from a gold crown. Tooth loosened and was removed. Fig. 4 cross-section of peridental membrane of the left inferior central. Fig. 8. Formation of two abscesses. incisor of a twenty-nine-year-old lady, who had been under mycare for fourteen years. Owing to her occupation, that of dress-making, she had no exercise. She was in the habit of biting herthread with this tooth. She drinks no water. The result, auto-intoxication. Two cross-sections of blood vessels are seen consid-erably thickened (endarteritis obliterans), with round cell infiltra-tion about them. The following four illustrations show different stages of inflam- mation and degeneration of the peridental membrane of a right 640 THE DENTAL REVIEW. superior first molar in a forty-year-old lady, who has had inter-stitial gingivitis with pyorrhoea for the last twenty years, and isnow losing teeth very rapidly and is a marked neurasthenic. Fig. 5. Cross-section of palatal root near apex, showing con-nective tissue with active inflammation. Fig. 6. Cross-section farther down, showing further stage
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