Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton.

  • Roughton, Edmund W.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    incomplete below. The central part is formed of calcified tooth pulp, and contains a confused mass of bone and dentine. Radicular odontomes are rare in man, but are common in other mammals especially rodents. They are often multiple. They frequently lead to suppuration. The symptoms of this and of other varieties of hard odon- tomes are so misleading that, according to Bland Sutton, up to the present time no case has been correctly diagnosed before the removal of the tumour; most often they have been mistaken for exostoses, for necrosis or for unerupted teeth. The treatment consists in removing the tumour, scraping out the cavity and allowing it to granulate up. Cementomes. When the capsule of a tooth follicle becomes greatly thickened and ossified, the contained tooth comes to be em- bedded in, or attached to, a mass of cementum. This form of odontome is shown in Fig. 30. Cementomata occur most Fig. 30.—Cementome {Forget). frequently in horses, and may attain a large size, one speci- men weighing seventy ounces. Fibrous Odontomes. A fibrous odontome consists of a tooth enclosed within a greatly thickened tooth sac. The latter is so thick that it