Dental surgery for medical practitioners and students of medicine.

  • Barrett, Ashley William.
Date:
1905
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dental surgery for medical practitioners and students of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CuapTer II. THE FIRST DENTITION. ERUPTION OF TEMPORARY TEETH. LANCING THE Gums. ABSORPTION OF TEMPORARY Fancs. RE- LATIVE PoSITIONS OF TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT TEETH. IRREGULARITY AMONG PERMANENT TEETH CAUSED BY UNDULY RETAINED TEMPORARY TEETH. DECAY AMONG TEMPORARY TEETH. PROTRUSION oF Fancs oF TEMPORARY TEETH THROUGH THE Gum. WHEN To ExtTRACT TEMPORARY TEETH. Eruption of temporary teeth.—The temporary or milk teeth are twenty in number, and their eruption usually begins and ends between the ages of six months and two and a half years. These are smaller and more blue in colour than the permanent teeth, and their fangs are more divergent. Reference may be made to a drawing in Chapter I. (fig. 1) concerning their various forms. ‘The following table gives the order and usual times of cutting of the members of this series. The 2 Lower Central Incisors, about 6th month. wi oo laper fe s Feuet thy is ,, 2 Lower Lateral . peaTothlecs, et galeuer oy iy ae pathos tl. » 4 First Molars ohn he TOCa GL; », 4 Canines i iinet seothaesy » 4 second Molars ... Se OLEAN
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