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CHAPTER VII.
OF IRREGULARITIES BETWEEN THE TEETH AND JAW.
Certain disproportions between the Teeth and Jaw, some-
times occur, one of which is, when the body of the lower
jaw is not of sufficient length for all the Teeth. In such
cases, the last grinder never gets perfectly from under the
coronoide process, its anterior edge only being uncovered
and the gum, which still in part lies upon the Tooth, is
rubbed against the sharp points of the Tooth, and is often
squeezed between the Tooth upon which it lies, and the
corresponding one of the upper jaw. This occasions so
much uneasiness to the patient, that it becomes necessary
to relieve the gum, if possible by dividing it freely in several
places, that it may shrink and leave this surface of the
Tooth wholly uncovered. If this does not answer, which is
sometimes the case, it is adviseable to draw the Tooth.
Sometimes, although but seldom, an inconvenience arises
from the dentes sapientise being in the upper Jaw, and not
in the lower ; these Teeth pressing upon the anterior part
of the root of the coronoide process when the mouth is
shut, for the coronoide processes are farther forwards in
such cases, than when the lower Jaw also has its dentes
sapientiae ; in short, the exact correspondence between the
two Jaws is not kept up.
In such cases I know of no other remedy but the ex-
traction of the Tooth.
OF SUPERNUMERARY TEETH.
When there are Supernumerary Teeth,* it will, in general,
be proper to have them drawn ; for they are commonly
either troublesome, or disfigure the mouth.
* Vide Natural History, page 143.
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CHAPTER VII.
OF IRREGULARITIES BETWEEN THE TEETH AND JAW.
Certain disproportions between the Teeth and Jaw, some-
times occur, one of which is, when the body of the lower
jaw is not of sufficient length for all the Teeth. In such
cases, the last grinder never gets perfectly from under the
coronoide process, its anterior edge only being uncovered
and the gum, which still in part lies upon the Tooth, is
rubbed against the sharp points of the Tooth, and is often
squeezed between the Tooth upon which it lies, and the
corresponding one of the upper jaw. This occasions so
much uneasiness to the patient, that it becomes necessary
to relieve the gum, if possible by dividing it freely in several
places, that it may shrink and leave this surface of the
Tooth wholly uncovered. If this does not answer, which is
sometimes the case, it is adviseable to draw the Tooth.
Sometimes, although but seldom, an inconvenience arises
from the dentes sapientise being in the upper Jaw, and not
in the lower ; these Teeth pressing upon the anterior part
of the root of the coronoide process when the mouth is
shut, for the coronoide processes are farther forwards in
such cases, than when the lower Jaw also has its dentes
sapientiae ; in short, the exact correspondence between the
two Jaws is not kept up.
In such cases I know of no other remedy but the ex-
traction of the Tooth.
OF SUPERNUMERARY TEETH.
When there are Supernumerary Teeth,* it will, in general,
be proper to have them drawn ; for they are commonly
either troublesome, or disfigure the mouth.
* Vide Natural History, page 143.
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