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4. The wound is freely open and its progress readily 
watched. If pieces of dental tissue remain behind, so common 
by other methods, and always preventing recovery, they are 
readily observed as soon as granulations appear, and can be 
easily removed. The wound is cleaner, more readily dressed 
and the patient suffers less pain from dressing and stands more 
quietly. 
fig. v. 
5. It anticipates and prevents alveolar fistulse, so common 
after other methods, not only because it permits free observa¬ 
tion, facility for dressing and for the removal of fragments of 
tooth and bone, but prevents to a great degree the impaction of 
food in the vacant alveolus, which constitutes a fertile source of 
fistulse. 
