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282 THIRD PERIOD—MODERN TIMES
already spoken on the subject. This man's canine was found by
Fauchard to be too large; nevertheless, for want of better he extracted and
transplanted it, after having diminished it in length and in thickness.
This it was not possible to do without the cavity of the tooth remaining
open, and for this reason, when, after about two weeks' time it had become
quite firm, he stopped it. But the stopping immediately caused such
insupportable pain (which circumstance astonished the writer not a
little) that he was obliged to take it out again the following day, on which
the pain ceased directly. Fauchard saw this patient eight years afterward,
and was assured by him that the transplanted tooth had lasted him six
years, but that its crown had been gradually destroyed by caries. The
root had been extracted by a dentist, not without considerable pain.'
We now give one of his cases of replantation in the words of the author
himself:
"On April lo, 1725, the eldest daughter of M. Tribuot, organ builder
to His Majesty the King, called on me; she was tormented by violent
toothache caused by caries of the first small molar on the right side of
the upper jaw; but although she was desirous of having the tooth removed,
to be freed of the pain, she, on the other hand, could not, without difficulty,
make up her mind, thinking of the disfigurement which its loss would
occasion, and thus it was that she was induced to ask me if it would not
be possible to put it back again after having extracted it, as I had already
done in the case of her younger sister. I replied that this might very well
be done, provided the tooth came out without being broken, without
any splintering of the alveolus, or great laceration of the gum. The
patient, upon this, completely made up her mind. I extracted the tooth
very carefully so as not to break it, neither were the gum nor the alveolus
injured in any way. I therefore was induced to put the decayed tooth back
in its alveolus, and having done this, I took care to tie it to the neighboring
teeth with a common thread, which I left in position for a few days.
The tooth became perfectly firm, and only caused pain for two days
after being replanted. , . . To better preserve it, I stopped the carious
"-
cavity.
Not without interest is a case of disease of Highmore's antrum, origin-
ating in the following way. A charlatan attempted to extract by means of
a common key a canine tooth which had erupted in an abnormal position.
He applied the hollow of the key to the tooth and beat upon the handle
with a stone. But the tooth, instead of penetrating into the hollow of
the key, was driven into the maxillary sinus.
Two important cases of "stony excrescence" of the gums (probably
osteomas) are to be found in Chapter XXXH. One of these tumors
' Page 383. 2 pggj. ^^5 3 Chap, xxxi, p. 3QI.
282 THIRD PERIOD—MODERN TIMES
already spoken on the subject. This man's canine was found by
Fauchard to be too large; nevertheless, for want of better he extracted and
transplanted it, after having diminished it in length and in thickness.
This it was not possible to do without the cavity of the tooth remaining
open, and for this reason, when, after about two weeks' time it had become
quite firm, he stopped it. But the stopping immediately caused such
insupportable pain (which circumstance astonished the writer not a
little) that he was obliged to take it out again the following day, on which
the pain ceased directly. Fauchard saw this patient eight years afterward,
and was assured by him that the transplanted tooth had lasted him six
years, but that its crown had been gradually destroyed by caries. The
root had been extracted by a dentist, not without considerable pain.'
We now give one of his cases of replantation in the words of the author
himself:
"On April lo, 1725, the eldest daughter of M. Tribuot, organ builder
to His Majesty the King, called on me; she was tormented by violent
toothache caused by caries of the first small molar on the right side of
the upper jaw; but although she was desirous of having the tooth removed,
to be freed of the pain, she, on the other hand, could not, without difficulty,
make up her mind, thinking of the disfigurement which its loss would
occasion, and thus it was that she was induced to ask me if it would not
be possible to put it back again after having extracted it, as I had already
done in the case of her younger sister. I replied that this might very well
be done, provided the tooth came out without being broken, without
any splintering of the alveolus, or great laceration of the gum. The
patient, upon this, completely made up her mind. I extracted the tooth
very carefully so as not to break it, neither were the gum nor the alveolus
injured in any way. I therefore was induced to put the decayed tooth back
in its alveolus, and having done this, I took care to tie it to the neighboring
teeth with a common thread, which I left in position for a few days.
The tooth became perfectly firm, and only caused pain for two days
after being replanted. , . . To better preserve it, I stopped the carious
"-
cavity.
Not without interest is a case of disease of Highmore's antrum, origin-
ating in the following way. A charlatan attempted to extract by means of
a common key a canine tooth which had erupted in an abnormal position.
He applied the hollow of the key to the tooth and beat upon the handle
with a stone. But the tooth, instead of penetrating into the hollow of
the key, was driven into the maxillary sinus.
Two important cases of "stony excrescence" of the gums (probably
osteomas) are to be found in Chapter XXXH. One of these tumors
' Page 383. 2 pggj. ^^5 3 Chap, xxxi, p. 3QI.
