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824 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ESTHETIC FACIAL CONTOURS.

would in all probability be decided to extract the first bicuspids as the
best course to pursue as a first step toward securing a perfect alignment
of the dental arch ; and the proceeding would probably be correct as far
as the upper teeth alone were concerned. And again, if both upper and
lower models were studied in occlusion and the irregularity of the lower
arch was—as is usually the case—in correspondence with that of the
upper, as shown in Fig. 870, the extraction of the lower first bicuspids
would doubtless, and correctly, be decided upon. This plan of correc-
tion might even be decided upon after a superficial study of the face of
the patient, which we may suppose to be similar to that shown in Fig.
871. Certainly the extraction of the lower first bicuspids, which have

Fig. 872.