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.
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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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    facts, that this tooth was affected with caries, and that its removal was followed by an immediate cure of the disease. In Bordenave's collection of cases of disease of the maxillary sinus, published in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sur- gery,* there are several cases similar to the one just narrated. I subjoin a description of the two following. Case XIII.—A servant of the Count of Maurepes had been afflicted for six months with a fistula upon the left cheek, a little below the orbit, which penetrated the maxillary sinus, caused by the spontaneous opening of an abscess. The third and fourth mo- lares, (which are the first and second according as the teeth are now designated,) both of which were considerably decayed, were extracted by M. Hevin, but as there were no openings through the alveoli, he perforated one with a trocar; this opening gave vent to a great quantity of putrid sanies, and it did not close for more than a year after it was made, but the fistula of the cheek healed in about ten days. Case XIV.—In 1717, a soldier of the regiment of Bassigny, who had for a long time a fistula in his cheek penetrating into the maxillary sinus, was treated for it at the Hotel Dieu, of Mont- pelier. The matter settling near the orifice of the fistula, pre- vented it from closing. M. Lamourier, on examining the mouth of the soldier, perceived that the second superior molaris was decayed; this he extracted and profited by the alveolar cavity, in opening the base of the sinus. The fistula of the cheek was by this means cured in a few days, but the counter opening was not immediately permitted to close. ' Vide Observations vii. viii. xii. and xiii. vol 12, l2mo. ed, pages 26, 33 and 34.