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Then it will come through as an imperfectly enameled tooth. ;
I have had a number of these cases occur in my practice
one in my own family, where an abscess occurred very early
at the root of a temporary molar, in which there was a good
deal of swelling and a good deal of pus. I suspected at the
time that there would be injury to the bicuspid, and when
the bicuspid presented the enamel was imperfectly formed,
not having been completed. This kind of circumstance has
occurred a number of times under my personal observation.
But it is only occasionally that we get injury from alveolar
abscess that has occurred quite early at the root of a tem-
porary tooth.

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