The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth / by Thomas Bell.

  • Bell, Thomas, 1792-1880.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth / by Thomas Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sufficient to effect this, at the moment of their being placed upon the teeth. That it can, in the slightest degree, faciliate the removal of the tooth from the socket, is too obviously absurd to require refutation ; I therefore consider its employment as an useless addition to the pain and the fears of the patient, who will often exhibit as much timidity at this prepara- tory operation, as at the extraction of the tooth itself. I shall now proceed to consider the mode in which the instruments which I have described, are to be applied for the removal of each separate class of the teeth. The incisores of the upper jaw will require the use only of a small pair of straight forceps, the application of which is extremely simple. As the roots of these teeth are conical, and generally per- fectly round, they will require merely a slight rota- tion, and may then be drawn downwards, in the direction of the socket. The forceps should be placed as high on the root as the alveolar process will admit, and should be pressed so firmly, as not to allow of the blades slipping upon the tooth, whilst at the same time, care must be taken that the pres- sure is not sufficiently great to crush the tooth. The extraction of the inferior incisores is effected upon a very different principle. The roots of these teeth being very much flattened laterally, it is obvious that they cannot be extracted upon the principle of simple rotation in the socket. When the tooth to be removed is even, or nearly so, with the others on each