Clinical radiological investigations of the lacrimal systems and the mandibular joints

Abstract

My thesis on clinical radiological investigations of the lacrimal systems and mandibular joints is based on the experience gained in the last fifteen years as consultant radiologist to the Plastic Surgery and Jaw Injuries Centre of East Grinstead in Sussex. Injuries of the lacrimal systems and mandibular joints were associated with cases admitted to the centre, and as time went by disorders of these particular systems alone were referred in increasing numbers from far and wide for diagnosis and treatment. In both systems a substantial influencing factor upon the number of cases encouraged to the centre was the fact that satisfactory routine radiological methods of examination of these systems were established, and a clinical liason had grown up between myself as radiologist and the ophthalmic and dental surgeons.