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>52 OPERATIVE DENTISTRY
Pressure, which is outward as this is in the line of least resist-
ance OAving to the thinness of process on buccal aspect, must be
sparingly used; not so much because you would endanger the
process by great force in this direction, for it is considerably thick-
Fig. 125.—Position for extracting right inferior bicuspids.
er over the bicuspid than over the cuspid roots, but because there
is danger of breaking the root just below the mouth of the alveolus,
or close to where the roots begin their bifurcation. With the sec-
ond superior bicuspid the pressure outAvard may be greater, bear-
