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this art should have correct views of the subject, before he
attempts the operation ; for after having imbibed an errone-
ous opinion respecting it, he is apt to carry this error into all
his future practice.
Indications for Extracting t/wse Teeth.
It is all-important that the physician or surgeon-dentist
should know when he ought, and when he ought not to ex-
is often the case that much more
tract a tooth, for it skill
is shown in curing and preserving a valuable tooth than in
extracting it. No practice can be more reprobated than that
of the indiscriminate extraction of every tooth, which the
physician or surgeon-dentist may be asked to extract ; and
yet it is a notorious fact, that there are many persons, posses-
sing such an insatiable thirst for gain, as to extract every tooth
that they might be asked to do, whether the teeth are sound
or not, and whether the individuals asking for the operation
be sane or not.
The following are the usual indications in correct dental
surgery, for the extraction of the adult teeth
First, It is proper, and often very necessary, to extract
adult teeth, to remove or prevent irregularity, inconvenience,
or deformity. If the teeth, especially at the time when they
are first appearing, appear to be too much crowded, it is
highly necessary to extract some of them ; in this case, the
first molar teeth on each side of the jaw, by being extracted,
will often give room for all of the other teeth of the jaw to
become regular ; and if we extract for this purpose one of
them, we must extract the other, for if we do not, all the
teeth are apt to incline to the side which has lost one of these
teeth. This is an important rule, and ought always to be re-
membered when operating upon either jaw. The front teeth
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this art should have correct views of the subject, before he
attempts the operation ; for after having imbibed an errone-
ous opinion respecting it, he is apt to carry this error into all
his future practice.
Indications for Extracting t/wse Teeth.
It is all-important that the physician or surgeon-dentist
should know when he ought, and when he ought not to ex-
is often the case that much more
tract a tooth, for it skill
is shown in curing and preserving a valuable tooth than in
extracting it. No practice can be more reprobated than that
of the indiscriminate extraction of every tooth, which the
physician or surgeon-dentist may be asked to extract ; and
yet it is a notorious fact, that there are many persons, posses-
sing such an insatiable thirst for gain, as to extract every tooth
that they might be asked to do, whether the teeth are sound
or not, and whether the individuals asking for the operation
be sane or not.
The following are the usual indications in correct dental
surgery, for the extraction of the adult teeth
First, It is proper, and often very necessary, to extract
adult teeth, to remove or prevent irregularity, inconvenience,
or deformity. If the teeth, especially at the time when they
are first appearing, appear to be too much crowded, it is
highly necessary to extract some of them ; in this case, the
first molar teeth on each side of the jaw, by being extracted,
will often give room for all of the other teeth of the jaw to
become regular ; and if we extract for this purpose one of
them, we must extract the other, for if we do not, all the
teeth are apt to incline to the side which has lost one of these
teeth. This is an important rule, and ought always to be re-
membered when operating upon either jaw. The front teeth
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