RT Journal
A1 Darling BC
T1 DRainage of apical abscesses of teeth
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1925
FD January 17
VO 84
IS 3
SP 221
OP 222
DO 10.1001/jama.1925.02660290065034
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1925.02660290065034
AB To the Editor: 
    —The answer to "M.D.'s" request as to whether a dentist was correct in saying that extraction was entirely unnecessary in the case of four apical abscesses as shown by the roentgen-ray examination, in the Queries and Minor Notes department of The Journal, Dec. 11, 1924, appears to me misleading, since it represents only one side of even the dental attitude in the matter, leaving out of all account the convictions of medical men who have carefully investigated the subject. The dental profession, as shown by a questionnaire by Darling sent to 150 dentists prominent in different parts of the United States (J. Radiol.4:39 [Feb.] 1923) in answer to Question I (a), "What is your present opinion as to extraction in the case of a tooth that shows definite periapical pericemental destruction?" stands 56 per cent, in favor of extraction; 10 per cent in favor of