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may eventually be found in the carious cavity. After the cauterization
one scrapes the cavity and fills it up with cotton-wool soaked in oil of
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cinnamon. Later on one stops the tooth.
Fig. 84

An extracting instrument called by Fauchard lever or tirtoire, and the handle of a
pelican without the hooks.

The chapter in which Fauchard treats of the correction of dental
irregularities is of particular interest. In speaking of his observations,
we have already seen that in this field also he knew how to obtain splendid
and admirable results. He, nevertheless, made use of the most simple

' Vol. ii, p. 80.