. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . n lower jaw. The circle A is the alveolus from which the second bicuspid wasextracted. Fig. 234. Cyst in upper jaw, in apical region of pulpless upper first molar. Enlarge-ment, as seen in mouth above first molar, about the size and shape of one-half hazelnut. immediate. It required two or three months for all of the enlargementof the jaw to disappear. In my experience as a radiographer I have observed that the generalpractitioner of dentistry shows great reluctance to extract a tooth, nomatter what the condition he is treating may
. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . n lower jaw. The circle A is the alveolus from which the second bicuspid wasextracted. Fig. 234. Cyst in upper jaw, in apical region of pulpless upper first molar. Enlarge-ment, as seen in mouth above first molar, about the size and shape of one-half hazelnut. immediate. It required two or three months for all of the enlargementof the jaw to disappear. In my experience as a radiographer I have observed that the generalpractitioner of dentistry shows great reluctance to extract a tooth, nomatter what the condition he is treating may be. On the other hand, the THE 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. 255. 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. No 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- Tifl. 256. ment of the mandible at the symphysis. Tenderness, intermittent local pains. The radiograp
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