Page 239 - My FlipBook

EXTRACTION OF PERMANENT TEETH 235

With All Superior Teeth the operator should stand back of the
patient and, a little to the right, placing the crown of the head
against the chest of the operator, putting the left hand around to
the left of patient's head with the index finger holding the lip away

Fig. 109.—An improper position with the operator doing his work at arm's length.
from the alveolar process and at the same time lying against the
process, to detect at once any extensive injury which might result
from a fracture. The middle or second finger should be placed back
of the forceps Avhen the tooth it on the left side; or against the
palatine process wlien the tooth is on the right side. Then by