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Etiology: Actinomyces bovis, normal inhabitant of the ruminant oral cavity.
Epidemiology
Common but sporadic disease from infection through wounds to the buccal mucosa by feed or through dental alveoli.
Clinical Findings
- Initially painless, hard, immovable bony swelling on mandible or maxilla.
- Eventually discharge of small amounts of pus through one or more openings in skin.
- The discharge of pus is small in amount
- and consists of sticky, honey-like fluid containing minute, hard, yellow-white granules.
- Teeth embedded in the affected bone become malaligned and painful and cause difficult mastication with consequent loss of condition.
- Excessive swelling of the maxilla may cause dyspnea.
Treatment
- Surgical debridement
- Iodides (sodium iodide and potassium iodide) and/or antimicrobial (mainly procaine penciline) orally or parenterally.