Importance of histological assessment of dental follicles following extractions
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1Department of Oral Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich.
Dental Update
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case is reported of actinomyces being isolated histologically from an enlarged dental follicle surrounding a partially erupted, impacted third molar. This allowed prophylactic therapy to prevent the possible development of cervicofacial actinomycosis.