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Relation between Facial Neuralgia and Dental Irritation
warded by a speedy cure. I can endorse much of what he says from cases which have come under my care as a dental surgeon, both in private and hospital practice. One has only to remember the important part played by the fifth nerve, with its widespread divisions and branches, in the nervous supply of the face and deeper tissues, also that many of the ultimate ramifications of this nerve end in t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific American
سال: 1879
ISSN: 0036-8733
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican03151879-2652bsupp