The natural history and diseases, of the human teeth / [Joseph Fox].

  • Joseph Fox
Date:
1833
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Credit: The natural history and diseases, of the human teeth / [Joseph Fox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about five or six months, ossification has commenced upon the pulps of the incisores and cuspidati, and on the points of the molares; this gradually advances and extends itself, over the pulp, down to the neck of the tooth, from the cutting edges or highest points, where it had first commenced. At the time of birth, the bodies of ten teeth are distinctly formed in each jaw; these are the teeth designed to serve during the years of childhood, and are commonly called the temporary, shedding, or milk teeth.* These temporary teeth, which constitute the first set, are twenty in number, and are divided into three classes, incisores, cuspidati and molares. In each jaw there are four incisores, two cuspidati, and four molares, and the teeth on one side of the mouth correspond in figure with those of the other, so that they are situated in pairs. Besides these twenty teeth, there are in a very early stage of their formation, the rudiments of some other teeth, which are to form part of the permanent or adult set.f
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