A system of dental surgery / by John Tomes and Charles S. Tomes.

  • Tomes, John, 1815-1895.
Date:
1897
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Credit: A system of dental surgery / by John Tomes and Charles S. Tomes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to time been macie at “ replantation of teetli.” It should have been mentioned in the section relating to alveolar periostitis that experiments have lately been performed by Mr. Coleman, following in the steps of Mitscherlicb and others, in which carious teeth were extracted and replaced, after scraping off the thickened and di.seased periosteum. The results, however, are not such as to render it an advisable operation; and ]\Ir. Sercombe has lately placed in the museum of the Odontological Society a pivoted tooth, which had been extracted on account of prolonged irritation in the socket, and afterwards replaced. It became tolerably firm, but after some little time became so loose that it had to be r(!moved, when the fang was found to have almost disappeared. Such seems to be the usual termination of cases of replantation.