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its root of about a line in depth.
The author i^oes on to describe all the
particularities of the operation, and then adds:
"After tvventv-five or
thirty days one removes the thread, and the tooth is found to be hnn in
the alveolus, owing; to the fact that this latter, exercisiiii; a pressure on the

Fig. 91

Pincers used by Fauchard in the operation of t}in larger figures represent natural or artificial teeth in which holes and horizontal grooves
have been made in order to fix them with gold threads. The two smaller represent
pieces of hippopotamus ivory with a vertical groove on each side, destined to fill large
interdental spaces and to steady loose teeth by means of gold ligatures.
root on every side, becomes perfectlv moulded upon it. In this manner,
the tooth will remain mortised, and ma\' be preserved for a considerable
time."
This method, invented bv an unknown provincial dentist, has been
recently applied by Znamenski, of Moscow, for the implantation of arti-
ficial teeth made of porcelain, of caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.