. A manual on extracting teeth, founded on the anatomy of the parts involved in the operation; the kinds and proper construction of the instruments to be used; the accidents liable to occur from the operation, and the proper remedies to retrieve such accidents . be cylindrical, so as to encircle as much of the toothas is admissible, and the blade intended for the inner INSTRUMENTS FOR EXTRACTING TEETH. 113 or lingual side of the tooth should be a little smallerthan the other. The points of these forceps, too,should be sharp, so that they will pass readily underthe gums cutting their way, and n
. A manual on extracting teeth, founded on the anatomy of the parts involved in the operation; the kinds and proper construction of the instruments to be used; the accidents liable to occur from the operation, and the proper remedies to retrieve such accidents . be cylindrical, so as to encircle as much of the toothas is admissible, and the blade intended for the inner INSTRUMENTS FOR EXTRACTING TEETH. 113 or lingual side of the tooth should be a little smallerthan the other. The points of these forceps, too,should be sharp, so that they will pass readily underthe gums cutting their way, and not bruising of the forceps of this kind that are offered forsale, are both too blunt and too much curved in theirblades, so that they are bungling to apply, and whenapplied their bearing is too directly, too entirely ontheir very points, making them act either as cuttingforceps or else allowing their handles to rotate onthe points of the instrument, until the crown of thetooth impinges on one blade of the instrument, whilethe point of the other blade acts as a fulcrum overwhich to break off the tooth. Another common ob- FiG. jection to this kind of forceps is that the blades arset at too great an angle to the handles, either foreffectiveness or convenience. Indeed, forceps forthese teeth made entirely straight, with the blades a 10* ^ 114 INSTRUMENTS FOR EXTRACTING TEETH. little narrower, than the common incisor forceps, butenough thicker to give them their requisite strength,and set enough further apart at the joint to clear thegreater thickness of the crowns of these teeth, isquite as convenient as any other form. And as thesame instrument is equally adapted to each side of themouth, if both handles are made alike, it is more conve-nient than if one is bent to fit around the little care should also be taken that the uppermolar forceps—which must be rights and lefts—arewell adapted to the class of teeth on which they areto be used, as well as to t
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