Manual of dental surgery and pathology / Thoroughly rev. and adapted to the use of American students and practitioners, by Thomas C. Stellwagen.

  • Coleman, Alfred
Date:
1882
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Credit: Manual of dental surgery and pathology / Thoroughly rev. and adapted to the use of American students and practitioners, by Thomas C. Stellwagen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where the teeth and alveolar process of the right side of the upper jaw are considerably pressed outwards hy this habit always practised on that side. [It is not uncommon for this habit, unless cured, to be the cause of a deformity in the perma- nent teeth, producing a disfigurement giving an almost idiotic expression by the protrusion of the upper incisors fiir beyond the lower. (See Fig. 9.)] With regard to treatment, we have never seen occasion to interfere in the case of supernumerary temporary teeth, which are sometimes followed, and sometimes not, by permanent suc- Fig. 10. [Fig. 11. Chin retractor as applied. Another form of chin retractor which by the lower bandage draws the chin directly backwards, and by the buckles the tension may be altered at pleasure. Both bandages may be made of elastic webbing, and pads may be put under the buckles.] cessors. In the cases, however, where there is an increasing tendency to become underhung, due doubtless to some excess of development in the lower jaw, or imperfect development in its ascending ramus, an applinnce for drawing back the chin, by means of an elastic band attached to a cap for the head, may quite prevent, at an early age, the occurrence of this unsightly irregularity. The temporary teeth cannot be said to be liable to any diseases special to themselves which are not common to both series.