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OF THE IMMEDIATE FASTENING, ETC. 237
OF TRANSPLANTING A DEAD TOOTH.
The insertion of a dead Tootli lias been recommended, and
1 have known them continue for many years. If this always
succeeded as well as the living, I would give it the preference,
because we are much more certain of matching them, as a
much greater variety of dead Teeth can be procured than of
living ones. But they do not always retain their colour, but
s*re susceptible of stain. However, I have known them last
xor years without any alteration ; and some have appeared
rather to acquire a transparency, which dead Teeth in general
have not.
OF THE IMMEDIATE FASTENING OF A TRANSPLANTED
TOOTH.
When a Tootli has been transplanted, the next thing to be
done is to fix it in that position in which it is intended to
remain ; that is in general to the two neighbouring Teeth, by
means of silk or sea weed. If it is an incisor or cuspidatus,
the silk should first be tied to the neck of one of the neigh-
bouring Teeth, as near the gum as possible ; then the two
ends of the silk should be brought round upon the body of
the Scion Tooth, but not so near the gum as in the former, and
tied there ; then it should be brought round the neck of the
other neighbouring Tooth, as near the gum as possible, as in
the first, and tied there. The reason of the difference of the
heights of the silk recommended, must appear evident, it

painful, the tootli tender to the touch, and it was quite evident if the
tooth was allowed to remain violent iuflamniation would supervene.
There was, therefore, no alternative but to remove the tooth when the
symptoms speedily subsided. In this case, if the tooth had been
allowed to remain, it would certainly have produced an acute abscess,
and as in the case ot the little boy before mentioned, it would very pro-
bably have involved the death of a portion of the jaw bone."] (1)

(1) The Teeth in Health and Disease. By R. T. Huline, M.R.C.S., F.L.S.
p. 52. London, 1864.