. Dental electro-therapeutics. utely forever destroyed. Thewriter is convinced that alveolar bone seriously affected by 1 Dental Cosmos, liii, 991. 294 TREATMENT OF PYORRHEA ALVEOLARIS chronic pyorrhea is capable of reformation about the socketsof loosened teeth. Instances are constantly seen whereteeth are exceedingly loose, moving freely in enlarged sockets(as is always the case in faulty occlusion or undue stress),but when, under treatment, all irritant causes are removedand the septic infection dealt with, the rarefied bone recalci-fies and the sockets reform about the roots, leaving themi
. Dental electro-therapeutics. utely forever destroyed. Thewriter is convinced that alveolar bone seriously affected by 1 Dental Cosmos, liii, 991. 294 TREATMENT OF PYORRHEA ALVEOLARIS chronic pyorrhea is capable of reformation about the socketsof loosened teeth. Instances are constantly seen whereteeth are exceedingly loose, moving freely in enlarged sockets(as is always the case in faulty occlusion or undue stress),but when, under treatment, all irritant causes are removedand the septic infection dealt with, the rarefied bone recalci-fies and the sockets reform about the roots, leaving themin a firm, healthy condition. Proof is also furnished by radio-graphs taken before and after treatment (Figs. 158 and 159).It is not useless or hopeless to retain a set of teeth, which isbadly affected by pyorrhea, in a functional state for a spaceof fourteen years or even six years, provided the septicinfection can be kept away, even if it is necessary to treat theteeth two or three times a year in order to obtain Fig. 155.—Case C, model 1 before treatment, and 2 fourteen years later. The Case C, reported on p. 240, is one in which exten-sive pyorrhea with constitutional symptoms accompanyingit existed, the pockets on the palatal aspect of the incisors PERIODONTAL DISEASE 295 extended nearly to the apices, every symptom of chronicpyorrhea existed. When the teeth were retracted to the posi-tion of the diagram on p. 241 they were so loose that theycould he moved forward a distance of about 5 mm. without
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