. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. prone to assume an abnormal position in relation to thecoronoid process, and in either position a tumour may be Fig. 216 TUMOURS CONNECTED WITH THE TEETH. formed which may be difficult of diagnosis. Dr. Forget{op. cit.) quotes the case of a woman who had^ on the leftside of the hard palate, a tumour of the form and size ofa nut, which reached beyond the median line, and extendedfrom the canine tooth to the soft palate. Blandin, on at-tempting to remove it, discovered it to
. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. prone to assume an abnormal position in relation to thecoronoid process, and in either position a tumour may be Fig. 216 TUMOURS CONNECTED WITH THE TEETH. formed which may be difficult of diagnosis. Dr. Forget{op. cit.) quotes the case of a woman who had^ on the leftside of the hard palate, a tumour of the form and size ofa nut, which reached beyond the median line, and extendedfrom the canine tooth to the soft palate. Blandin, on at-tempting to remove it, discovered it to be caused by twodwarfed and abnormally-placed molar teeth, which had pene-trated the inner plate of the alveolus, and were lodged be-neath the mucous membrane of the palate. On the removalof these the tumour subsided. A similar case of tumour ofthe palate, due to a molar tooth, is recorded in Tomes DentalSurgery. Still more remarkable is the case narrated byMr. Tellander, of Stockholm, before the Odontological Society,in December, 1862, of supernumerary. teeth imbedded inthe upper jaw, causing a hard painless tumour, whichappeared about the age of twelve ; and this again is eclipsedby the case recorded by Mr. Tomes, which occurred
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