Description of an odontome / by Charles S. Tomes.

  • Tomes, Charles S. (Charles Sissmore), Sir, 1846-1928.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Description of an odontome / by Charles S. Tomes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    presented by the inner surface of the dentine shell of the Odontome described last month.* I should not, therefore, feel greatly surprised if sections taken in other places should reveal the existence of dentine in the mass, particularly as its struc- ture corresponds very closely with that revealed by the section marked (/ d in the first-described specimen, where, it will be recollected, no dentine was seen. The whole outgrowth springs from a smallisli pedicle in the median groove which traverses the surface of a horse's tooth ; from this point a soft mass seems to have grown, wrapped round three sides of the tooth, and extended forwards along the jaw. This outgrowth may have originated from two sources: it may have sprung from the dentinal ])ulp, and so be of similar origin to that described last month ; or it may have had nothing to do with the dentine and its pulp, and be referable both in its origin and its after-development to the cement. If this latter explanation be the true one (and it is one to which I should have very strongly inclined had it not been for the existence of that one minute fragment of tissue, too small to clearly identify, which looked so suspiciously like dentine), it is an argument in favour of the existence of a special cement organ in the 'J'rans. Odoii. Soc, .JiUi. 1872, p. Hf).