. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Double dislocation of the inferior maxilla. 498 DISLOCATIONS OF THE LOWER JAW. Fig. Double dislocation of the inferior maxilla. fossa and also upon the side of the cheek in the region of the massetermuscle. Ordinarily the patient suffers considerable pain, but not always, from the pressure of the condyles upon thebranches of the temporal is a constant flowing of thesaliva from the mouth; the patientis unable to articulate, and evendeglutition is performed with greatdifficulty. Prognosis.—When the dislocationremains unred
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Double dislocation of the inferior maxilla. 498 DISLOCATIONS OF THE LOWER JAW. Fig. Double dislocation of the inferior maxilla. fossa and also upon the side of the cheek in the region of the massetermuscle. Ordinarily the patient suffers considerable pain, but not always, from the pressure of the condyles upon thebranches of the temporal is a constant flowing of thesaliva from the mouth; the patientis unable to articulate, and evendeglutition is performed with greatdifficulty. Prognosis.—When the dislocationremains unreduced, the lower jawgradually approximates the upper,and its anterior projection sensiblydiminishes, the saliva ceases to drib-ble from the mouth, deglutition andspeech are restored, mastication isperformed with considerable ease, andin short, the patient comes at lengthto experience no great inconveniencefrom the displacement. Robert Smith relates the case of awoman whose lower jaw was dislo-cated during an epileptic was at the time in one of themetropolitan hospitals, but the accident was not noticed by the sur-geons, an
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