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
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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.

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    branches to the bicuspides, cuspidati, and incisores; it afterwards passes out at the foramen infra orbitarium, and is distributed upon the cheek, under eyelid, upper lip, and side of the nose. The inferior maxillary nerve passes through the fora- men ovale of the sphenoid bone, and is distributed to the muscles of the lower jaw: it sends off a large branch, the lingual, which goes to the tongue, which is the true gustatory nerve; it then enters the maxillary canal of the lower jaw, passes through the bone under the alveoli, and gives off branches, which entering the fangs, ramify upon the membrane within the cavities of the teeth; it passes out at the anterior maxillary foramen, and is spent about the chin and lip.* [ABSORBENTS OF THE TEETH.] There is another set of vessels, called absorbents, of the existence of which, in the structure of common bone, I believe there is no doubt; and on account of certain effects produced upon the teeth, we must conclude that they are not destitute of them. During the progress of the second dentition, the fangs of the temporary teeth are absorbed; and even the per- manent teeth, when diseased, often lose a considerable portion of the fangs. It may be argued, that in these cases the absorbent vessels are situated in the socket, and act upon the tooth as if it were an extraneous body. But in some cases, we find the teeth undergo the ulcera- tive process, and a considerable quantity of the inner part is removed, a circumstance which could not happen un- less there were absorbents entering into the cavities of the teeth, and properly belonging to them. * Plate IX. Fig. 5. 9
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