On the complete development of the teeth : the system whereby dentition may be easily accomplished, and its importance mentally and physically, with the consequences entailed upon their offspring by the incomplete development of the teeth of parents : addressed to the medical profession / by George Henry Cullis.

  • Cullis, George Henry.
Date:
1859
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Credit: On the complete development of the teeth : the system whereby dentition may be easily accomplished, and its importance mentally and physically, with the consequences entailed upon their offspring by the incomplete development of the teeth of parents : addressed to the medical profession / by George Henry Cullis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    To facilitate tlie discovery of these teeth, it is necessary that you carry with you the magnifying mouth mirror— Fig. 12 : it would be found useful in enabling the practitioner not only to discover overgrown and undeveloped teeth, but as an aid in detecting cases of suspected poisonings, for any powerful acid or mineral would leave some trace upon the gums or teeth. Recurring to the illustrative case before us, the obvious course to have been pursued, if you had been called in when the attack first came on, and you had discovered the tooth, was to have removed the left front and lateral tooth, and the erratic canine could then have been safely drawn through their sockets, and the patient, I am satisfied, would have immediately revived. This is what that eminent surgeon, Mr. Pott, in his day would have called “ a good and easy composition for the preservation of life,” but the ignorance and timidity of parents, supported as they sometimes are by the indecision and want of scientific knowledge on the part of the practitioner, often lead to results the most fatal. The next plates exhibit the position of an overgrown lateral and undeveloped dentes sapientue in the same head : Fig. 13. a. Part of tlie overgrown tooth. I do not consider this condition of an overgrown tooth by any means so dangerous as if it had been forced inward and across the palate. I have known many similarly retained :— indeed, I know a case, in the. neighbourhood of Cheltenham, which has existed for upwards of sixteen years, the tooth only
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