Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston.

  • Grayston, William Cass.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    poison from a dead pulp. The pain is usually re- lieved by freely opening the pulp-chamber—thus giving vent to the foul gases of decomposition— and by the application of counter irritants to the gum, iodine liniment being very useful for this purpose. Capsicum plasters are also very good, the difficulty being for patients to make them stay in place suflficiently long to be of service. When peridental inflammation has reached the ■suppurative stage, very little relief will be obtained until the pus is able to escape. In many cases the fine steel bristle may be passed through the apex of the root, and the pus will at once flow down through the root-canal. In other cases the patient may be directed to poultice the gum with pieces of hot figs, or to apply the more convenient capsicum plasters until the pus is drawn through the alveolus into the gum, whence it is readily evacuated with a lancet. Drilling through gum and alveolus gives speedy relief in many cases, but is too heroic a method for general practice. Whenever the patient resists the manipulation necessary to vent the canals, it becomes a question of the judgment of the operator, whether he will attempt to get rid of the pain by trusting solely to local appHcations to the gum, or whether he will at once extract the tooth. An excellent method in
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