It was Billings who coined the term focal infection.
Because so many illnesses wee chronic streptococcal
diseases, such such disease involvement became known as the
Billings-Rosenau syndrome. In a way it is fortunate the
teeth and tonsils are the primary source of these secondary
infections, as their accessibility and removal prove a
relatively easy solution compared to surgery on major
organs.
A strange paradox exists in that a patient who has a severe
intestinal or heart problem readily submits to spectacular
types of corrective surgery, when it would be far simpler
and less costly to remove the possible infected tooth,
tonsil, or other mouth foci. In Dr. Billings' time, 53
percent of patients who had tonsillectomies required
reoperation.
Then, too, the dental profession is generally unaware that
the first millimeter (less than a sisteenth of an inch) of
bone which holds the tooth in its socket can be loaded with
bacteria which should be removed at the time of the
extraction. This procedure will prevent the formation of
jaw bone infections( cavitations). You will find the
extraction surgical protocol covered in Chapter 25.
Paul S Rhoads, M.D., and George F. Dick, M.D. Should you
find it difficult to accept the fact that 53 percent of
tonsillectomized patients required reoperation, let me add
the even more troublesome findings of Drs. Paul Sl Rhoads
and George F. Dick Which appeared in the Journal of the
American Medical Association: 91, 1149, in 1928. To quote
this article directly:
It is shown by this work that tonsillectomy as usually done
even by specialists fails to accomplish this end in 73
percent of cases because of incomplete removal of infected
tonsillar tissue. In many instances the condition resulting
from incomplete tonsillectomy is worse than that existing
before operation. Patients who had systemic disease
attributable to faci of infection but failed to improve
after their original tonsillectomy, improved strikingly
after removal of the pieces of tonsillar tissue remaining
from the first operation.
What is so tragic about these surgical failure is that the
"stumps" left after tonsillectomy were found to harbor more
bacteria per gram than the tonsils which were removed.
Assuming patients were advised to have their tonsils
removed because infected tonsils were causing illness, not
removing all the infected tissues accomplished worse than
nothing. When these patients then reported tissues
accomplished worse than nothing. When these patients then
reported the tonsil removal did not help, they were usually
told by the doctor their illness must be something else.
Many of these patients were even accused of being neurotic
and were put on drugs for the mentally ill. Because this
study by Drs. Rhoads and Dick was reported in the A.M.A.
journal in 1928, we can assume techniques for doing
tonsillectomies have improved since then. Those who have
undergone this surgery and find the glands in their neck
are still enlarged and perhaps tender, and the tissues
about the tonsillectomy scar appear inflamed or are
distended, would be wise to to consult a surgeon
experienced in removing these stumps or tags, as many
doctors are not experienced in carefully dissecting out the
remaining infected tissue.
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