pyorrhea
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Pathology. a discharge of pus.
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Also called Riggs' disease, pyorrhea alveolaris. Dentistry. a chronic form of periodontitis occurring in various degrees of severity, characterized in its severe forms by the formation of pus in the pockets between the roots of the teeth and their surrounding tissues, and frequently accompanied by the loosening and subsequent loss of the teeth.
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Larger use of the X-ray by dentistry and more definite study of dental decay and pyorrhea as manifestations of something going wrong elsewhere in the body are necessary to real progress in the profession.
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With it he reported cures of pyorrhea, Addison's disease, such baffling bleeding diseases as forms of hemophilia, purpura hemorrhagica and hemorrhagica nephritis.
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The effects of a bad case of pyorrhea were beginning to show.
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Dr. Box's idea is that pyorrhea is not caused by the loosening of the tooth, but that the loosening of the tooth is caused by the destruction of the wall structure at its base.
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He was invited to give a clinic upon pyorrhea alveolaris, and he told them of this patient, whom he showed to some fifteen members.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various
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