General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: The S. S. White dental mfg. co. Subjects: Dentistry Mouth Teeth Medical / Dentistry / General Medical / Otorhinolaryngology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXVI. ALVEOLAR ABSCESS. An Abscess is the formation of pus somewhere within the body, as the result of some local or circumscribed inflammation. An Alveolar Abscess is an infective inflammation within the alveolar walls. It may be the result of some foreign substance acting as an irritant, or some injury may have been the exciting cause. Either of these agencies may result in an inflammation so violent as to induce a breaking down of tissue, and infection with sup- purative organisms will induce the formation of pus, which reaches the surface by the route presenting the least resistance. An alveolar abscess does not, therefore, necessarily presuppose the death of the pulp. If the inflammation does not materially involve that tissue, or if the pericementum involved does not include that from which the blood supply of the tooth is derived, an alveolar abscess may be established without pulp devitalization. But such a condition is not that which is usually denominated alveolar abscess. The common acceptation of the term is that affection which is the result of inflammation and death of the pulp, its infection, and the consequent inflammation and infection of the pericementum from contiguity of tissues. If we take up the subject of the last chapter at the point of its closure, and suppose the pulp of a tooth to be devitalized as the result of stasis of the blood currents, with the consequent stoppage of all nutrition through a distinctive inflammat...
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