Excerpt from The Dental Cosmos, 1877, Vol. 19: A Monthly Record of Dental ScienceIn every case which has come under my own notice, or has been related to me by other practitioners (now numbering more than a. Dozen), this feeling of uneasy or positively painful tension has con tinned until the tooth has split with a noise which has always been represented to be like the report of a pistol, immediately upon which all pain or uneasiness has ceased. Soon, however, a knowledge of the presence of the tooth asserts itself, and it is found to be gradu ally more and more distressing to chew upon it, until at last the pain arising from peridental irritation, sometimes mingled with true pulp symptoms (but rarely), will cause a demand for relief.It IS my experience in practice that extensive lesions of this kind are, except under some modifying circumstances, very amenable to treatment, which will be given in place, under the proper head of periodontitis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.