Bone-formation after resection of the lower jaw / by B. v. Langenbeck.

  • Langenbeck, Bernhard Rudolph Conrad von, 1810-1887.
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bone-formation after resection of the lower jaw / by B. v. Langenbeck. 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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    The photograph, which is taken half in profile (August Matthes’s), shows yon that the contour of the lower jaw is very complete, and that the chin stands out in the normal manner. The skull sent to us by Dr. Wood settles at-once the ques- tion of the durability of the newly-formed bone. It has, in- deed, been repeatedly maintained, that the newly-formed bone, after subperiosteal resection, cannot be of a durable kind, but that it subsequently must be reabsorbed. At all events, this may happen, and I have myself seen it in the case of a woman suffering from phosphorus-necrosis of the lower jaw, much re- duced by long suppuration, whose lower jaw, newly formed after resection, was, after a twelvemonth, almost entirely re- absorbed. Such an absorption of bone is, however, a rare occurrence in my observation, and I can testify to the un- changed persistence after years of the new bone-formation, after subperiosteal extirpation, as well in the lower jaw as in long bones (tibia, radius, os metacarpi pollicis). Dr. Wood’s patient died some years after the operation, and yet you see the new lower jaw preserved in all its parts, although a trifle smaller than was the original jaw.