Excerpt from Beyond Amalgam showing cavitation surgery
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| Five cavitations were cleaned out in the lower right jaw, spanning the area of tooth #28 through tooth #32. | This picture shows three cavitations in the lower left jaw. Note that the back two are connected, spanning the space between 2nd and 3rd molar sites. |
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This picture shows another double cavitation, again spanning 2nd and 3rd molar areas; this time upper left jaw. Some visual distortion is present due to the use of a mirror to make the photograph. An additional cavitation was treated in the upper right jawbone, but no photo was taken (after seven hours in the dental chair, I was too tired to “pose,” and the surgeon was ready to go home, too!
PLEASE NOTE: The holes shown in my jawbone in these photographs were not made by the surgeon. They were uncovered by him and cleaned out. The intent of surgery is to remove necrotic [dead] tissue and thereby restore circulation to the area so it can heal.
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From Beyond Amalgam, p. 106.
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