A practical treatise on the technics and principles of dental orthopedia and prosthetic correction of cleft palate . 86 PART III. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE. *^ ^^ the plaster models of a number of cases which proved that however irregular the teeth, however bunched, mal-aligned, or malposed, they coiild always be placed intheir respective places in the arches and in normal occlu-sion, and therefore, so far as the relations of the teethto each other are concerned, no dental malpositionshould be regarded as a basis for extraction. When these truths dawned upon his mind he said:I believe I hav
A practical treatise on the technics and principles of dental orthopedia and prosthetic correction of cleft palate . 86 PART III. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE. *^ ^^ the plaster models of a number of cases which proved that however irregular the teeth, however bunched, mal-aligned, or malposed, they coiild always be placed intheir respective places in the arches and in normal occlu-sion, and therefore, so far as the relations of the teethto each other are concerned, no dental malpositionshould be regarded as a basis for extraction. When these truths dawned upon his mind he said:I believe I have made a very great error, doubly so,because it is in the family of some very dear friends ofmine. Wishing to do the very best for their little daugh-ter whose upper cuspids were erupting in thatway, Iextracted the first premolars, and now at about fifteenyears of age, I find that all the upper front teeth arebiting back of the lowers, with quite a depression of theupper lip, which gives her the appearance of a pro-truding lower jaw. Fig. 29 shows on the left the position of her teethwhen she was brought to the author; and, on the right,is shown the pos
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