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294 THIRD PERIOD-MODERN TIMES
a wrong tooth is extracted by accident, it ought to be immediately
replanted, and the same ought to be done when violent pain renders
it
necessary to extract a tooth that is not much decayed, as the patient
is
thus relieved without losing the tooth/
Fauchard adds that this opera-
tion succeeds excellently in the case of incisors and canines, and very
otten, too, with small molars.
Fig. 89
Fig. 90
Cutting forceps (Faiicliard). Cutting forceps (Fauchard).
After having spoken of transplantation, he saysr "There is another
mode of replacing human or natural teeth which I have never yet seen
used except by a provincial dentist whose name I ignore." This special
method consists in the transplantation of a tooth— it matters little whether
recently extracted or not—after having made three or four notches in
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