Neurological Complications of the Third Molar Tooth.

IN the course of an investigation* into the complications of eruption of the wisdom teeth I have collected some 700 cases from the literature and from private sources. In a number of these cases the symptoms were neurological rather than dental, and in some of them the patients had been treated by neurological methods for considerable periods of time without benefit, only to be relieved immediately as soon as the real cause was discovered. It seems to me, therefore, worth while to put some of these cases on record in the hope that similar errors in diagnosis may be averted in the future.