. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . an to fall short of reaching the end of the root. Of thetwo mistakes, the former is less likely to be followed by abscess formation. The radiograph shows an upper cuspid with a Tig. 305. perforation to the mesial through the side of the root into the peridental membrane. The radiograph was made several weeks after patching the perforation with gutta-percha. There is scarcely any inflammation at all at the point of perforation. showing how well the tissues tolerate gutta-percha. Under this heading of research work allow me to mention
. Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper . an to fall short of reaching the end of the root. Of thetwo mistakes, the former is less likely to be followed by abscess formation. The radiograph shows an upper cuspid with a Tig. 305. perforation to the mesial through the side of the root into the peridental membrane. The radiograph was made several weeks after patching the perforation with gutta-percha. There is scarcely any inflammation at all at the point of perforation. showing how well the tissues tolerate gutta-percha. Under this heading of research work allow me to mention the recent 268 DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY disturbing paper by Dr. William Hunter, of London. Let me say thatDr. Hunters charge that we, as a profession, practice septic dentistry iswell founded. One needs to do but little radiographic work to be fullyconvinced that the conservative dentistry of which we have been so proudis often a dreadful mistake. It consists all too often of simply treatingthe case until it becomes a chronic abscess, then, with the abatement of. Fig. 305. The arrow points to a perforation, through the side of the cuspid root, which hasbeen patched with gutta-percha. the acute symptoms, calling the case cured. As a radiographer, a man ina position to make extensive observations, I declare that the root canalwork of the majority in our profession is a menace to health. Badroot canal work is not usually the result of inability to do the workproperly, so let us have hope. It is nearly always due to the factthat the operator thinks he cannot get paid for the work. And it is indeedhard to convince a public, which has received its dental education fromadvertising quacks, of the necessity of receiving and paying for the propertreatment of its teeth. I would not be understood as saying that I agree fully with I do not. But the doctor is on the right track. He knows thereis such a thing as bad dentistry, septic dentistry, being practiced, as do allobserving men, e
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