SULFONAMIDE CHEMOTHERAPY OF DENTAL INFECTIONS

¹ Dental Department, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, N. Y.

Under favorable conditions, the topical application of the sulfonamides seems to reduce the pain, and to a more limited degree, other untoward post-operative reactions of minor surgical wounds of the maxilla and mandible. This inference cannot be accepted as a valid conclusion until it is consistently corroborated. Publication of observations on similar studies is desirable.

The apparent safety of this method, its simplicity, and the necessity for defining the scope of chemotherapy in oral surgery invites wide experimentation.