The diseases of the human teeth : their natural history and structure : with the mode of applying artificial teeth, etc., etc. / by Joseph Fox and Chapin A. Harris ; with two hundred and fifty illustrations.
- Joseph Fox
- Date:
- 1855
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The diseases of the human teeth : their natural history and structure : with the mode of applying artificial teeth, etc., etc. / by Joseph Fox and Chapin A. Harris ; with two hundred and fifty illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![jaw, where it divides into the condyloid and coronoid processes. It passes first between the jaw and the ex- ternal pterygoid muscle, and afterwards runs in a very winding direction towards the back part of the antrum maxillare; it here sends numerous branches to the parts belonging to both jaws, and to the teeth of the upper jaw. It then gives off one branch to the lower jaw, called by some, the inferior maxillary, and by others, the dental. This enters the jaw-bone at the posterior maxillary fora- men, passes through the maxillary canal, and gives off branches to the fangs of each tooth, and also supplies the substance of the bone: This vessel having sent a branch to the incisores, passes out at the anterior maxillary fora- men; it is distributed to the gums, and communicates upon the chin with branches of the facial artery. [NERVES OF THE TEETH.] The nerves, which are distributed to the teeth, arise from the fifth pair, the trigemini. This pair of nerves divides into three branches; the opthalmic, the superior maxillary, and the inferior maxillary. The opthalmic branch passes through the foramen lacerum of the orbit, and is distributed to the parts in the neighbourhood of the eye; the superior maxillary nerve goes out at the foramen rotundum of the sphenoid bone, and divides into several branches, being continued to the posterior part of the nose, the palate, velum palati, and contiguous parts. At the posterior part, small filaments of nerves, accom- panying branches of arteries, enter the superior maxillary bone by foramina which lead to the molares, and also to the membrane lining the antrum maxillare: The nerve then goes into the canal under the orbit, and forms the infra orbitar nerve. Whilst in the canal, it sends off](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21120559_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
