StThomas's Hospital reports . ions from the Dental Department. A. young man came with broken lower jaw on right sideat bicuspids. In this case there was great displacement;the fracture being oblique; the ends of the bone wereinterlocked, and I could not get the ends into position. Iproposed that he should have an anaesthetic, so that when themuscles were relaxed the difficulty would be overcome, butthe man objected strongly to having an anaesthetic, and saidhe would much sooner bear the pain. I did not feel at allhopeful of getting it into place, as it was so firmly fixedand did not seem to mo
StThomas's Hospital reports . ions from the Dental Department. A. young man came with broken lower jaw on right sideat bicuspids. In this case there was great displacement;the fracture being oblique; the ends of the bone wereinterlocked, and I could not get the ends into position. Iproposed that he should have an anaesthetic, so that when themuscles were relaxed the difficulty would be overcome, butthe man objected strongly to having an anaesthetic, and saidhe would much sooner bear the pain. I did not feel at allhopeful of getting it into place, as it was so firmly fixedand did not seem to move, but after some little time, bymanipulating in different directions, the ends came intoplace suddenly, and then there was no more difficulty. Soit seems that in cases like this a little patience and perse-verance will overcome the difficulty. Case of eruption of canine under the chin.—The patientwas a little girl aged six years, with a tooth erupting belowher chin. On examination it was found to be the left lower Fia. permanent canine. Three or four years before she had haddiphtheria very badly. When she was convalescent, about Contributions from the Dental Department. 203 a fortnight after, the lower jaw began to swell uniformly,and an abscess formed, discharging a good deal of after two teeth were extracted, liberating a quantityof pus, and a sequestrum separated, when matters seemedto quiet down. Subsequently, however, four pustulesappeared on the chin ; these burst, leaving sinuses, fromwhich necrosed bone came away. Three of these healed,while from the fourth, eighteen months later, the left lowerpermanent canine appeared, as it is shown in the plate,apparently turned upside down, the tip of the caninepointing downwards. This tooth was extracted, and thepatient went away cured. In hunting up similar cases, I found in the museum at theDental Hospital a case of a lower wisdom tooth erupting onthe cheek above the angle of lower jaw. Salter mentions acase of
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