Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867 / By Christopher Heath, edited by Henry Percy Dean.

  • Heath, Christopher, 1835-1905.
Date:
1894
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    THE INJURIES AND DISEASES OF THE JAWS. CHAPTEE I. FKACTUKE OF THE LOWER JAW. Teacture of the lower jaw is usually the result of direct violence, though Professor Pan coast met with a case in which fracture of the neck of the hone had resulted from a violent fit of coughing, in an old man upwards of seventy years of age (Gross's Surgery, p. 964). Blows received on the jaw in fighting, or a kick from a horse, are the most common causes of the accident; but falls from a height upon the face also produce some of its most serious forms, owing to the comminution resulting. The unskilful appli- cation of the dentist's key has been known to cause a complete fracture of the bone, but more frequently in former years than at the present time, when that instrument has been almost entirely superseded by the forceps. Fractures of the alveolus are frequently unavoidable during the extraction of the molar teeth, even in the most skilful hands, since the position assumed by the fangs is occasionally such that extraction without displacement of the bone to some extent is impossible. These cases ordinarily give, however, little inconvenience, since the removal of the alveolus only hastens the absorption which must necessarily ensue upon the removal of the teeth, unless indeed the fracture should be so extensive as to affect the alveoli of the neighbouring teeth, in which case exfoliation A