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

  • Grayston, William Cass.
Date:
1904
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    it will also be necessary to cauterise and stimulate tlie socket with creosote, carbolic acid, or nitrate of silver. Burring out the socket, especially at the apex, has been recommended in certain cases, but the writer has never found it necessary to resort to this, and the cases in which it is advisable may be considered rare. A frequent cause of pain after extraction is a rapid healing of the gum at the orifice of the socket. This often causes the gum to curl over the sharp edges, and practically stretch or press itself tightly on to them. In these cases the gum should be slit in several places with small scissors, cauterised with nitrate of silver, and kept away from the ragged edge of the socket with cotton - wool and sandarach varnish. The relief of pain in teeth which contain either inflamed or dead pulps is often rendered difficult, and sometimes impossible (unless extraction is resorted to), owing to the formation of either secondary dentine or pulp stones. In all cases, therefore, where the pulp does not appear to be exposed, and the application of the usual remedies fails, the pulp - chamber must be drilled into if possible, and if found to be filled up with secondary dentine, it must be cut away until the orifices of the root-canals are exposed. The presence of what are known as pulp stones often causes severe pain,