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![bleeding; this perhaps may sometimes answer better than the other method, and therefore should be tried when that fails. It is scarcely possible to draw some teeth without breaking the alveolar processes. This in general is but of little consequence, because, from the nature of the union between the teeth and sockets, these last can scarcely be broken further than the points of the fang, and in very few cases so far; therefore little mischief can ensue' as the fracture extends no further than the part of the socket which will naturally decay after the loss of the tooth ; and that part which does not decay will be filled up as a basis for the gum to rest upon, it has been supposed that the splinters do mischief: I very much doubt this; for if they are not so much detached as to lose the living principle, they still continue part of our body, and are round- ed oft at their points, as all splinters are in other fractures and particularly here, for the reasons already assigned, viz. because the part has a greater disposition for wasting. And if they are wholly detached they will either come awav before the sum'con- tracts entirely, or after it is closed will act as an extraneous body, form a small abscess in the gum, and come out. It sometimes happens that the tooth is broken, and its point or cTLllhVang fcftW**. which - ^ry often sufficient to continue the former complaints; and therefore it should be extracted, rf it can be done, with care. If it cannot be extracted the sum will ,n part grow over it, and the alveoli will decay as far as where is. The decaying principle of the socket will produce the dispo- sition to fill up at the bottom, whereby the stump will be pushed out; but, perhaps, not till it has given £ome fits o?f The tooth-ache ttToThr-;ch:.CirCUmStanCe d°eSn0t ^ «~ a cau^of Transplanting Teeth. nni^r^ t!,iS °Peration is in itself a matter of no difficulty yet upon the who e it is one of the n\r^t ^r oil 1- Ulli|cuu}» >ei sarv to be ohsprvpH ^ u •/• , certain cautions neces- ^\^XeA^c^^f\y nbG a lh'ing tO0th which is t0 be we E^n^^^ KH£ retai,n ^ ]f' and the patient; he should apply earTyand *?£ h TV*^ UP°n he thinks necessarv m JSI li} ■ glve lhe denflst a11 the t me to be of a pro'r sVe lc EftS? HT* °f tCe,h ,hat aPPear get out of fis LdTbeft' it is'aXi^bt ** * be ™P'tiffi t0 i^^t^ ^ onebe changed, incisores and cuspidatfthan the' bir. ,ni SU°C?S ls greater in the quentlv the ends of their £«£%™ked ffc **?• aSt havinS frc the operation will become less°perfect circumstance It is hardly ^ibl. ,„ lransplam (he ^^ ^ ^ ^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131570_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
