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Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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suffered severe neuralgicpains on the right side of his face. Hehad visited dentists from time to time,and bad bad tooth after tooth extracteduntil all the teeth on the right side ofhis mouth, both upper and lower, badbeen removed, withoul affording any re- lief. An examination showed an en-largement of the mandible about tbeangle id tbe jaw on tbe right, side. Tins enlargement was Srst noticed severalmonths prior to bis visit. The pain badbeen getting decidedly worse for the lasttwelve months, during which time thepatient, bad suffered several severe ab-scesses. Upon a careful examination 1 dis-covered a small list uIn. By passing aprobe into tins fistula. I could feel abard substance, which my sense of touchconvinced me to be tooth structure. I bad a radiograph made, which revealed WOOL). A CASE OF COMPOSITE ODOXTOME. 561 the conditions shown in Fig. 1. As the consenting to the removal of the entireradiograph showed a large tumor, which lower jaw, which several surgeons had Fig. 1.
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in no way resembled a tooth, I decided advised. Ether was administered, andto make an exploratory incision before upon opening the jaw 1 found the odon- 562 THE DEXTAL COSMOS. tome shown in Fig. 2. This I proceededto extirpate by excising the process overand around it. then cutting the odon-tome into four parts, and removing each part separately so as not to fracture thejaw. Within two weeks the patient hadrecovered entirely, with absolutely norecurrence of the neuralgic pains. SUPERNUMERARY TOOTH IXVOLYIXG THE MAXILLARY ANTRUM. By J. W. CUANDALL, A.A.Dent.Surg., U.S.A., Naval Training Station. Newport, R. I. IX October 1913, G. \Y. , ap- intensified by cold or when exposed toprentice seaman, U.S.X., twenty-one damp or humid atmosphere, constantyears of age, was brought to my at- hawking and spitting, caused by a dis-tention, charge of pus through the antro-nasal

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