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326 — EXTRACTION OF TEETH.

out being required to submit to it ; and, indeed, the
majority, before middle age, lose in this manner from
four to ten teeth, and many, all. The following are
some of the objects for which a resort is had to this
operation :
1. To obtain relief from pain, caused either by

disease of the pulp, by inflammation of the perios-
teum, or by any other affection involving the teeth,
that can not be readily controlled without their
removal.
2. To prevent pain in future. This, of course, has
reference only to those teeth which are very much
decayed, or rendered useless by any cause, and which
are liable at any time to occasion disease in the parts
about them.
3. To save sound teeth from the attack and ravage
of decay. This implies those teeth which, by their
offensive condition, would prove injurious to healthy

teeth.
4. To relieve a diseased condition of the contigu-
ous parts, such as alveolar abscess, neuralgia excited
by dental irritation, diseased antrum—and sometimes,
indeed, remote parts, which are in many instances
affected by diseased teeth.
5. To anticipate and obviate irregularity. Of this
there are many cases, in which all the teeth can not

be accommodated with a proper position in the arch,