The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth and diseases / [John Hunter].

  • John Hunter
Date:
1778
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Credit: The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth and diseases / [John Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c cavities, for the roots of the Teeth. This is obferv- able in the whole length of the Alveolar Procefs of the Upper-Jaw; and in the fore-part particularly of the Lower-Jaw. The Alveolar Procefles of each Jaw, form about one half of a circular, or rather of an elliptical * figure ; and at the fore-part in the Lower-Jaw they are perpendicular, but project inwards at the pollerior part, and defcribe a fmaller circle than the body of the bone upon which they Hand f ; as we fhall obferve more particularly hereafter, when we come to treat of the Jaws of Old People. The Alveolar Procefles of both Jaws fhould rather be confidered as belonging to the Teeth, than as parts of the Jaws ; for they begin to be formed with the Teeth, keep pace with them in their growth, and de¬ cay, and intirely difappear, when the Teeth fall ; fo that, if we had no Teeth, it is likely we fliould not only have no fockets, but not even thefe procefles, in which the fockets are formed and the Jaws can per¬ form their motions, and give origin to mufcles, with¬ out either the Teeth* or Alveolar Procefies. In fliort, there is fuch a mutual dependence of the Teeth, and Alveolar Procefles on each other, that the definition of the one feems to be always attended with that of. the other. * Vide Plate I. Fig. i. and a.- . f Vide Plate I. Fig. 2. In
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