Dissertation on the diseases of the maxillary sinus : read before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, at their third annual meeting, held in Boston, July 20, 1842 / by Chapin A. Harris.

  • Harris, Chapin A. (Chapin Aaron), 1806-1860.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Dissertation on the diseases of the maxillary sinus : read before the American Society of Dental Surgeons, at their third annual meeting, held in Boston, July 20, 1842 / by Chapin A. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    character occurred. The patient, however, contended that a portion of the knife-blade remained in the roof of his mouth. But on the most careful examination no foreign body could be de- tected. On the 10th of August, 1842, Mr. Schuti called and requested Dr. Donne to examine his mouth, stating that for six months past he had been annoyed by a rough, projecting substance, which some person had informed him was a piece of dead bone, but which he believed to be the point of the knife, that had been driven down into the bone by the violence of the blow. On looking into the mouth, a small black speck was discernible about one-half inch from the interval between the first and second molar teeth. The parts adjacent were somewhat tumefied and inflamed. Dr. Donne made several attempts to extract this body with a pair of common dissecting forceps, but found it immovably fixed in the substance of the bone. By dissecting around it with a bistoury, down to the palate process of the superior maxillary bone, he was enabled to get a firmer hold, and, with a pair of curved tooth-forceps, succeeded in removing a fragment of the blade, one and one- fourth inches in length, and three-fourths in width at the widest part; the extraction was not effected without considerable vio- lence, and was attended with extreme suffering. The fragment came out with an audible snap, which induced those present to suppose, at first, that it had been broken; but on inspecting its surfaces closely, they were found similarly oxidized, and wanting the lustre which a recent fracture had presented. Upon probing the aperture through which the fragment had been extracted, no >ther piece could be detected. This opening, would scarcely drnit the curved probe which Dr. Donne passed into the antrum,