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Title: Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry.
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Dentistry
Publisher: Chicago, Dental review company 1887-(1918)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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te, the disease presents two,three, four or five different forms, etc. No matter whether theirritation be local or constitutional, the result and the pathology arethe same. Inflammation in the alveolar process and soft tissues takes thesame course it would in other bones and soft tissues. It will eitherterminate in resolution and the structures return to nearly normal,or it will result in absorption, ulceration and abscess. 634 THE DENTAL REVIEW. Inflammation either builds up the structure as in hypertrophyso beautifully illustrated by Dr. G. Lenox Curds/ m SyphiliticLoculosis Alveolaris, or it destroys the bone by absorption Irritation, when local, first produces gingivitis, which, becom-ing chronic, extends to the alveolar process and assumes an mter-stitial character. When irritation is constitutional, due to auto-intoxication or drug poisoning, the alveolar .W^-jJWtissues first become involved, then assuming an interstitial character,later affecting the gums, producing gingivitis.
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Fig. 3. Inflammation of the gum.How susceptible the alveolar process is to interstitial gingivitis Ser when auto-intoxication takes p.ace or drug; po*r ^int^flammation sets in with marked interstitial gmgiviti,absorption and loosening the teeth. _____ i Journal American Medical Association, June, I9OQ. ORIGINAL COMMUNICA TIOXS. 635 A seamstress bites her thread. Interstitial gingivitis resultswith absorption of the bone and loosening of the teeth. Personswith very low vitality, poorly nourished people, suffering with pro-longed sickness, pregnant women, have general interstitial gingi-vitis. Persons overworked or suffering with neurasthenia are proneto interstitial gingivitis. In syphilis, interstitial inflammation is not only set up in thealveolar process, but in all bones of the body as well, causing hyper-trophy as well as absorption and death of bone. Heat and allied

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