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when, on touching the other teeth, I perceived a motion un-
der the gums, through the extent of the three teeth. Some
weeks after, the whole became so loose, that a slight force
brought it away. The parts then healed but not without
leaving an immense cavity.
Fig. 9 exhibits a similar case, which occurred to a young
lady, a patient of Mr. Williams in the Borough of Southwark.
This lady was tormented with the tooth-ache for a long
period ; her face swelled, and matter formed, but all the en-
treaties of Mr. Williams, and the dreadful consequences
which he taught her to expect, could not raise in her mind
sufficient courage to permit the tooth to be extracted. The
consequence was, that a large piece of the jaw mortified,
the bicuspides, in consequence of their attachment to the
bone being destroyed by the ulcerative process, became loose,
and being single fanged teeth, were easily taken away ; at
length the piece of bone was so completely detached, as to
allow of its removal, bringing away with it the diseased
tooth ; at this time, the second molaris, having lost almost
the whole of its support, was found to be so loose as to ren-
der it necessary to be extracted. Here is an instance where
a person lost four teeth, and a large portion of the jaw, through
an obstinate determination of not submitting to the extrac-
tion of the originally diseased tooth.
I saw also a woman in Bartholomew's Hospital, who from
a similar cause, lost all the teeth with the alveolar processes
of the anterior part of the lower jaw.
When abscesses form in the mouths of children, from dis-
eases of the temporary teeth, the greatest care should be
taken, as by an exfoliation of part of the jaw-bone, the
teeth may be destroyed.*
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Vide Natural History of the Teeth, Part II. page 71.
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when, on touching the other teeth, I perceived a motion un-
der the gums, through the extent of the three teeth. Some
weeks after, the whole became so loose, that a slight force
brought it away. The parts then healed but not without
leaving an immense cavity.
Fig. 9 exhibits a similar case, which occurred to a young
lady, a patient of Mr. Williams in the Borough of Southwark.
This lady was tormented with the tooth-ache for a long
period ; her face swelled, and matter formed, but all the en-
treaties of Mr. Williams, and the dreadful consequences
which he taught her to expect, could not raise in her mind
sufficient courage to permit the tooth to be extracted. The
consequence was, that a large piece of the jaw mortified,
the bicuspides, in consequence of their attachment to the
bone being destroyed by the ulcerative process, became loose,
and being single fanged teeth, were easily taken away ; at
length the piece of bone was so completely detached, as to
allow of its removal, bringing away with it the diseased
tooth ; at this time, the second molaris, having lost almost
the whole of its support, was found to be so loose as to ren-
der it necessary to be extracted. Here is an instance where
a person lost four teeth, and a large portion of the jaw, through
an obstinate determination of not submitting to the extrac-
tion of the originally diseased tooth.
I saw also a woman in Bartholomew's Hospital, who from
a similar cause, lost all the teeth with the alveolar processes
of the anterior part of the lower jaw.
When abscesses form in the mouths of children, from dis-
eases of the temporary teeth, the greatest care should be
taken, as by an exfoliation of part of the jaw-bone, the
teeth may be destroyed.*
¥
Vide Natural History of the Teeth, Part II. page 71.
