This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...commoner tumors of the face and jaws, giving the tissue from which they spring. Give the symptoms and treatment of carcinoma of the lower jaw. Give the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of epulis. What is an odontoma? Give treatment. Give the etiology, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of leukoplakia. CHAPTER XVII ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...commoner tumors of the face and jaws, giving the tissue from which they spring. Give the symptoms and treatment of carcinoma of the lower jaw. Give the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of epulis. What is an odontoma? Give treatment. Give the etiology, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of leukoplakia. CHAPTER XVII SYPHILIS OR LUES The recognition of this disease by the dentist is very important, as he is at any time liable to meet with its oral manifestations, some of which are among the most contagious lesions of the disease. Etiology.--Infection occurs through some break in the surface of the skin or mucous membrane. It may be of genital or of extragenital origin. The commonest mode of infection is through sexual intercourse, but the disease may be acquired innocently through infected drinking-cups or other utensils, a razor, kissing, etc. Surgeons have become infected by wounding their fingers while operating on syphilitic patients. Infection may be transmitted from one patient to another by unclean surgical or dental instruments. The infecting organism is the spirochata pallida or, more correctly, the treponema pallidum, discovered by Schaudinn about 1905. The. organism can be found in lesions of all stages of syphilis. It is a pale, spiral organism, with from ten to twenty turns, a flagellum at either end, and is endowed with active motility. It can only be stained by special methods. It is taught that the tertiary stage of syphilis is not contagious. In this stage probably the spirochete, though they are present, have lost their virulence. Syphilis is divided into the primary, secondary, and tertiary stages. (1) Primary Stage.--The typical lesion is the chancre, which appears at the point of infection about three weeks after exposure. It begins as a...
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