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ing in mind that the roots of these teeth are disproportionally long
compared with their circumference at the neck.
Inferior Bicuspids. Principally traction. In applying this force
bear in mind that the line of the greatest length of these teeth is

Fig. 126.—Position for extracting left inferior bicuspids.

normally inclined backward instead of being in all cases at a right
angle to the plane of occlusion. Therefore, the traction must be
applied in a direction wJiich- would moye the tooth,, if it sudjdenly
came loose, towards the first molar or back of where it' normally .^