Surgical diseases of the mouth and jaws / by Earl Calvin Padgett ... with 334 illustrations.

  • Padgett, Earl Calvin, 1893-1946.
Date:
1938
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Credit: Surgical diseases of the mouth and jaws / by Earl Calvin Padgett ... with 334 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    region of the entire body is it more essential to “know one’s way about,” so to speak, in carrying out a diagnostic or an operative procedure. I know of no book on oral surgery per se which has as yet gone into the principles of radiation therapy. But it seems that the advances made in this field during the past few years have made a section on radiation therapy an essential part of a book which presumes to cover the whole field of oral surgery. , In writing an oral surgery, the question of grouping and naming the chapters is a very difficult one to decide. Almost any method that one adopts when he begins to place the material in its proper category for one reason or another sooner or later does not seem to fit. For instance, in a regional classification he finds repetition in the discussion. If one adopts a pathologic classification there are certain diseases and infections which do not fall readily into any particular category. After considerable thought, I have decided rather arbitrarily to relegate a few of the preliminary chapters which are pertinent to the whole field, to the first part of the book and then to group the remainder of the chapters according to the following scheme: (1) Wounds and injuries of (a) soft tissues, (6) hard tissues. (2) Inflammations and unclassified diseases. (3) Acquired malformations. (4) Congenital malformations. (5) Tumors of the soft tissues, (a) benign, (b) malignant. (6) Tumors of the hard structures, (a) benign, (b) malig¬ nant. (7) Restoration of deformities. Certain chapters which have to do with the treatment of conditions in chapters immediately preceding are interspersed because they would seem to fall naturally into such a position. I am indebted to Dr. Don Woodward for writing the original outline for the chapter on the removal of teeth. Also before this chapter was placed in its present form, I received much valuable advice from Dr. R. W. Edwards, Dr. C. W. Keeling and Dr. G. Farrell Webb. Dr. Copeland Shelden wrote the paragraphs on the orthodontic management of Class II and Class III (Angle) cases. With Dr. Shelden and Dr. Louis James there took place considerable discussion concerning the dividing line be¬ tween those cases which should be submitted to the orthodontist and those cases which should be managed by the oral surgeon. Dr. Don Mosher not only read the paragraphs concerning pyorrhea but to a certain extent rewrote the section on treatment of that disease. Dr. C. W. Keeling and Dr. Claude O’Dell were kind enough to read and criticize the chapter on “Inflammations and Diseases of the Soft Structures of and about the Teeth.” I am very much indebted to Professor Martin F. Palmer who devotes his time to “speech training” for writing the subject matter concern¬ ing this phase of the cleft palate problem. The majority of the drawings were made by Mr. Ted Bloodhart but Dr. S. J. Conrad and Miss K. Bell also made a considerable number. To my secretary, Miss Opal M. Quick, I am particularly indebted for doing the required typing. Lastly, I am indebted to the publishers who have made every effort to bring the book up to the high standard comparable with their other publications. Kansas City, Missouri, January, 1938 Earl C. Padgett.