. Elementary and dental radiography . Fig. 253. Fig. 254. Fig. 253. A bone cyst in the lower , 254. Same as Fig. ■.•>:;. with the cyst outlined to enable the reader to observe Fig. 258 toadvantage. The circle A is the alveolus from which the second bicuspid was extracted. immediate. It required two or three months for all of the enlargementof the jaw to disappear. hi my experience a^ a radiographer I have observed that the general practitioner of dentistr) shows great reluctance to extract a tooth, nomatter what the condition he is treating may he. On the other hand, the 77//: USES O
. Elementary and dental radiography . Fig. 253. Fig. 254. Fig. 253. A bone cyst in the lower , 254. Same as Fig. ■.•>:;. with the cyst outlined to enable the reader to observe Fig. 258 toadvantage. The circle A is the alveolus from which the second bicuspid was extracted. immediate. It required two or three months for all of the enlargementof the jaw to disappear. hi my experience a^ a radiographer I have observed that the general practitioner of dentistr) shows great reluctance to extract a tooth, nomatter what the condition he is treating may he. On the other hand, the 77//: USES OF THE RADIOGRAPH IN DENTISTRY 221 specialist in oral surgery extracts teeth sometimes without making theslightest effort to conserve them. I believe, however, that the oral surgeonis less often mistaken. A man may make a greater mistake than the ex-traction of a tooth. For example: failure to extract a tooth which iscausing otherwise incurable suppuration, general sepsis, nervous dis-orders, necrosis or distracting Fig. Cio. A very large cyst of the lower jaw. The light area represents the cyst. This radio-graph shows the hyoid bone. (Radiograph by Lange, of Cincinnati.) Dr. Sidney Lange. of Cincinnati, made the radio-Tig. 255. graph shown in Fig. 255, but did not treat the Lange was, however, able to furnish the follow-ing history: Patient, boy. about eighteen. Very large swelling in thelower jaw. Xo pain or tenderness in the region of enlargement. A radio-graph ( Fig. 255) was made, and the case diagnosed as a benign bonecyst. The boy was taken to a hospital and the cyst drained of a straw- 222 DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY colored fluid, curetted and packed with gauze, through an opening madeinside of the mouth to the buccal. The patient left the hospital in a weekor two after the operation. Case: Male, age about twenty-five. Enlarge- J\Q. 2$b. ment of the mandible at the symphysis. Tenderness, intermittent local pains. The radiograph shows a large cyst. Failing to
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