Pacific Coast Dentist Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Hypnotized also on July 1, 6, 7, 8, 14 and 21. July 22, her mouth has felt entirely well since June 30 ; it is now normal in color save two small patches which a... more »re a little red, but not at all tender or uncomfortable. The patient has worn her plate all the time during the treatment. These cases fairly represent the extremes and average of the results in my practice of the application of hypnotism to dentistry. I believe it is a power of great value to my patients, and may be to the patients of other operators who practice it. ABSCESS OF THE ANTRUM WITH NECROSIS OF A PORTION OF THE ALVEOLAR PROCESS. BY J. W. LIKENS, Class of '94, College of Dentistry, University of California. ) I (HE patient, a girl, aged ten and a-half years, frail and in -- poor general condition, but with no tubercular or syphiltic history, was brought to me at my home in Carson, Nevada, the fifteenth of last June, with the following history : Twelve months previous she had suffered with odontoliga in the superior right second premolar. This being followed by the ordinary manifestations of alveolar abscess. She being of a frail constitution and the tissues having but feeble resisting power, it was not long till the alveolar process began to be necrosed involving the antrum of Highmore. The tumification of the right cheek had never disappeared, and, when first seen by me, closed the right eye, extended into the forehead, and partially closed the left. There was an opening of a sinus beneath the right orbit, directly over the maxillary process of the bone that very much resembled a furunculus. This had appeared early in May, having discharged twice, but never healing. The oedema of cheek was hard and at times the patient suffered with trismus, showing that the inflammation had extended to the glen...« less