Volume 3

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

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793
Date:
1771
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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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    of fockets for the Teeth. This edge is called in each bone the Alveolar Procefs *. Behind the Alveolar Pro cefles there are two horizontal lamellae, which uniting together, form part of the roof of the Mouth, which is the partition between the Mouth and the Nofe f. This plate, or partition, is fituated about half an inch higher than the lower edge of the Alveolar Procefs ; and this gives the roof of the Mouth a- confiderable hollownefs. The ufe of the Upper-Jaw is to form part of the Parietes of the Mouth, Nofe, and Orbits; to give a bafis, or fupply the Alveolar Procefs, for the. fuperior row of Teeth, and to counteract the Lower Jaw; but it has no motion itfelf upon the bones of the Head and Face,. * Vide Plate I. Fig. i, a, b, c, f Vide Plate I. Fig, i. e, f. O F