A manual of dental anatomy : human and comparative / by Charles S. Tomes.
- Charles Sissmore Tomes
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of dental anatomy : human and comparative / by Charles S. Tomes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![verse septa, the sockets of the teeth being formed by the interspaces between these septa. The internal alveolar plate is the stronger, the external the thinner and weaker, a fact of whicli we take advantage when we extract a tooth by bending it slightly outwards. On the outer snr- fiice of the alveolar process are eminences corresponding to the roots of the teeth, and depressions in their interspaces. Fig. 12(‘). apt to be especially marked over the canine teeth ; while between the teeth the alveolar ])roccsses attain to a lower level, so that the margins of the bone are festooned. Looking down into an empty socket, the bone is seen to be everywhere very porous, and to be jierforated by foramina of considerable size, while at the bottom there is the larger foramen admitting the vessels and nerves of the tooth. The alveolus of each iinlividual tooth consists of a shell of comparatively den.se bone of small thickness, which is imbedded in a mass of loose sjiongy bone; this dense shell conics into relation with the dense cortical bone of the (') Superior Maxillary l»onc of right side. 1. I’ody. 2. Tuberosity. /. Malar process. 8. Na.sal proces.s. 12. Alveolar process.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21499305_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
