The remains of the ligaments were cut, flexion of the hand protruded the carious ends of radius and ulna.
Butcher performs it by splitting up the sinuses leading to the carious joint, exposing it and cutting off with bone-pliers the anterior third of the metatarsal bone, and the proximal end of the first phalanx.
As a general rule, it can be said that the carious area is at least a quarter of an inch wider than appears upon visual inspection.
The difficulty in all these cases is to recognize the exact limits of the carious process.
Inoculation in the mouth is by way of an abrasion of mucous membrane or through a carious tooth.
In the course of months or years, many such openings may occur through which masses of soft tissue or bone, either carious or necrosed (sequestra), may be discharged.
The sinus is generally exposed accidentally whilst following out a tract of carious bone, and, to the surprise of the surgeon, pus or granulations may be seen to exude or protrude from an opening in its outer wall.
The continuance of pus from any spot, or the local growth of exuberant granulations, suggest the presence of an infected cell or a fragment of carious bone.
If not, careful search is made for any carious tract of bone, which is now followed up until the dura mater is reached.
An extra-dural abscess is frequently discovered accidentally, especially if the surgeon follows out the golden rule to trace any patch of carious bone to its limit.
On performing the complete mastoid operation and curetting away these granulations and polypi, a fistula may be found in the promontory, and carious bone may be felt on probing.
If any points of carious bone be found they should be removed freely with the gouge or burr.
It also permits the introduction of the operator’s little finger to some distance, so as to detect polypoid or carious surfaces.
After performing the mastoid operation any tract ofcarious bone is followed out to its limits.
Failure may be due to overlooking stumps of teeth within the cavity, and from leaving detached pieces of the carious wall within it.
By insinuating them carefully, and gradually working them upwards and outwards, a large mass of tissue or carious ethmoid can be grasped, twisted off, and shaken from the forceps into the vessel of water.
The probability of the diagnosis being correct is strengthened by the presence of granulations or carious bone on the floor of the tympanic cavity.
If the granulations recur repeatedly, it means that there is some underlying carious bone, and that healing will not take place until the tiny fragment is eventually exfoliated.
If the bone be carious only gentle curetting is necessary.
The lady instantly responded, and the old priest, joyfully clapping his hands, led her into the church, showing her all its carious carvings and decorations, and several very ancient MSS.
This is an extremely carious fact; and there can be no doubt of Mr. Parker's accuracy on the point; but it appears to us that he invariably finds his remark verified in castles and abbeys of the Anglo-Norman period in Ireland.
In some cases, the odour arising from carious teeth is combined with that of the stomach.
Gelsemium: to relieve the pain of a carious tooth unconnected with any local inflammation.
Sulphuric Acid: injection (one of strong acid to two of water) into carious joints, and locally to carious or necrosed bone.
Even in this great age of pseudo-scientific enlightenment, we do not have a carious tooth extracted until it aches, though we have a front tooth cleaned and stopped on the first appearance of decay.
We are only just beginning to realise the indescribable filthiness of carious teeth, than which anything more unclean, a few diseases excepted, can scarcely be found in slums.
I healed malignant tubercular diphtheria and carious bones that could be dented by the finger, saving them when the surgeon's instruments were lying on the table ready for their amputation.
Against the supposed worms of carious teeth he counsels fumigations with the burnt seeds of hyoscyamus or of leeks.
At that period, this operation was performed solely with a view to preventing the penetration into and the retention within the carious cavity of alimentary substances, and the disadvantages caused thereby.
To prevent a carious tooth from producing pain or fetor, he advises the carious hollow to be filled up with black veratrum mixed to a paste with honey.
As we have already seen, Fauchard did not hesitate in the least to fill a tooth when the dental pulp had become exposed in scraping the carious cavity.
It oxidizes and thus helps make tight margins, and is very useful at cervical margins; generally discolors, but not always, and does not discolor the tooth unless a carious portion has been left, and then only discolors that portion.
Chase, in 1880, claimed that a tooth filled with gold would necessarily become carious again at the margin of the cavity, wherever the acid secretions constantly bathe the filling and tooth-substance.
Portions of the os pedis, more especially of its wings, and therefore usually occurring in conjunction with necrosed cartilage, become carious in quittor.
The horn of the wall must be removed, and the diseased structures, whether gangrenous keratogenous membrane, necrosed ligament, or carious bone, carefully excised or curetted.
To enforce the foregoing remarks, and convey to the reader a slight idea of the consequences which ensue from a carious tooth, the accompanying wood-cut is introduced.
The carious tooth may be firmly implanted; and yet, notwithstanding the firm manner in which it is fixed in the jaw, no time ought to be lost in its removal.
The carious tooth had ceased to be a part of the living body, and with its vitality the organ lost its capability of self-preservation.
First, because the pain precedes the decay of the tooth in regard to time, and is liable to recur, frequently for years, without certainly being succeeded at last by a carious tooth, as I have repeatedly observed.
The white swelling of the knee, when it suppurates, comes under this species, with variety of other ulcers attended with carious bones.
They consist of carious quartz, ferriferous limestone, heavy spar, fluor spar, and sulphuret of silver.
This alloy may be rendered still more fusible by adding a very little mercury to it, when it forms an excellent material for certain anatomical injections, and for filling the hollows of carious teeth.
In some cases the odor arising from cariousteeth is combined with that of the stomach.
Clinically, carious bone yields a soft grating sensation under the pressure of the probe.
If disfigurement is likely to follow from cicatricial contraction--for example, in a sinus over the lower jaw associated with a carious tooth--the sinus should be excised and the raw surfaces approximated with stitches.
The carious process is preceded by the formation of granulation tissue in the marrow or periosteum, which eats away and replaces the bone in contact with it.
A probe passed into the sinus strikes carious bone.
Infection takes place, as a rule, along the side of a carious tooth, and spreads to the lower jaw.
The opening in the skin persists as a sinus, or develops into a typical ulcer with irregular, crescentic margins; in either case a probe reveals the presence of cariousbone or of a sequestrum.
If a periosteal gumma breaks down and invades the skin, a syphilitic ulcer is formed with carious bone at the bottom.
Incidentally, as a quaint but effective remedy for carious toothache, may be mentioned the common lady bird insect, Coccinella, which when captured secretes from its legs a yellow acrid fluid having a disagreeable odour.
Put on cotton wool into the hollow of a carious tooth, a drop or two of the essential oil will often ease the pain speedily.
The carious or necrotic process may extend to the mastoid cells.
If the infection is due to a carious tooth, this should be extracted, the socket opened up and drainage established through it in recent cases.
As a result of the pressure of the carious articular surfaces against one another, the acetabulum is enlarged and the upper end of the femur is drawn gradually upwards and backwards within the socket.
When the condition is due to a carious stump or to an unerupted tooth, this should be extracted at the same time as the abscess is opened.
In all cases the extraction of the carious tooth is necessary before the abscess will cease discharging and the sinus heal.
Suppuration in the muco-periosteum of the palate is usually secondary to suppuration at the root of a carious tooth.
The true alveolar tumour is to be diagnosed from a mass of redundant granulations such as may form in relation to a carious tooth, from a polypus or an epithelioma of the gum, a tumour of the body of the jaw, or an angioma.
At the outset the patient complains of pain and tenderness referred to one or more carious teeth.
Epithelioma sometimes originates in the gum in relation to a carious tooth or to an artificial tooth-plate.
In cases with carious destruction of the articular surfaces there are starting pains, and the arm is shortened.
The actinomyces gain access to the bone through a carious tooth or through the gum.
The presence of polypi and granulations, with pus oozing out from between them, and increasing after withdrawal of the probe, and the detection of carious bone are significant of ethmoidal suppuration.
This may be symptomatic of some inflammatory condition in the vicinity, such as a pyogenic affection of the lower jaw--for example, that associated with a carious root or an unerupted wisdom tooth, or with parotitis or tonsillitis.
Carious teeth, fracture and necrosis of the jaw (Meigs), and protracted catarrhal stomatitis are among the chief exciting causes.
The indiscriminate use of viper broth is not proper at all times, or in all cases of carious bones.
To separate and come off in scales or lamin\'91, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
In Shoa, the practice of surgery directs the removal of a carious tooth with the hammer, punch, and pincers of the blacksmith.
Do not report submaxillary enlargement in recurrent tonsilitis or carious teeth or post-cervical enlargement in pediculosis capitis, or in impetigo or eczema of the scalp.
Attention has been directed to the real significance of adenoids and enlarged tonsils, of swollen glands and carious teeth.
