. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . antages derived from using the radiographin this case were as follows: It saved the patient the pain of opening themouth for a prolonged instrumental and ocular examination; and alsothe pain caused by lancing, dissecting, and probing incident to such anexamination. It saved both the patient and the operator time. It showedclearly and exactly how much of the tooth was left, and illustrated its THE USES OF THE RADIOGRAPH IN DENTISTRY 207 exact location. It made the extraction of the piece of root decidedlyeasier for both patient and o
. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . antages derived from using the radiographin this case were as follows: It saved the patient the pain of opening themouth for a prolonged instrumental and ocular examination; and alsothe pain caused by lancing, dissecting, and probing incident to such anexamination. It saved both the patient and the operator time. It showedclearly and exactly how much of the tooth was left, and illustrated its THE USES OF THE RADIOGRAPH IN DENTISTRY 207 exact location. It made the extraction of the piece of root decidedlyeasier for both patient and operator. Fig. 227 is of a case similar to that shown inTi9$. 227 and 22S. Fig. 226. In this case, however, the second molarhad been extracted a year previously, and the radio-graph shows no unremoved bit of tooth root. The radiograph fails todisclose a cause for the clinical signs. But let me impress you with thisfact: it does show that an unremoved bit of tooth root is not the cause,and so aids us very greatly in a diagnosis by elimination. The patient did. Fig. 229. A piece of tooth root and an impacted cuspid in an otherwise edentulous upper jaw.(Radiograph by Lewis, of Chicago.) not return after his first visit, so the case was never diagnosed. Theremay have been a third molar impacted in the ramus. (See Fig. 228.)Xo one can deny the possibility. We took only the first step toward diag-nosis—we eliminated a possible cause. Though I have been unable to obtain a definiteTig. 229. history of this case, it is. in all probability, about as follows: After the extraction of the upper teeth thepatient returned with a localized inflammation of the gum tissue in thecuspid region. A radiograph was made to learn if this inflammation wascaused by an unresorbed bit of process or a piece of tooth root. Thepicture shows not only a piece of tooth root, but also an impacted cuspidtooth. It is not unlikely that this patient suffered from obscure neuralgicpains, headache, or other nerve affe
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