. The Dental cosmos. contact, there is loss of function. It isnot possible for the muscles to get properexercise, and their origin and insertionwill be affected; the mandible, the max-illa, the zygomatic process, in brief, all Fig. Before. the bones of the face and some of thethorax will fail to develop. EXPERIMENTS ON RABBITS. Dr. Lawrence Baker of Boston demon-strated this by some experiments whichhe carried on with young rabbits. Heselected a part of a litter and removedthe teeth from one side of the jaws, thusdestroying the function on that rabbits were subjected to the same
. The Dental cosmos. contact, there is loss of function. It isnot possible for the muscles to get properexercise, and their origin and insertionwill be affected; the mandible, the max-illa, the zygomatic process, in brief, all Fig. Before. the bones of the face and some of thethorax will fail to develop. EXPERIMENTS ON RABBITS. Dr. Lawrence Baker of Boston demon-strated this by some experiments whichhe carried on with young rabbits. Heselected a part of a litter and removedthe teeth from one side of the jaws, thusdestroying the function on that rabbits were subjected to the same[vol. liv.—49] conditions as the control specimens, andat the age of sever months one was killed,and the skeleton prepared for examina-tion. The edentulous side of the headshowed marked lack of development, asdid the mandible and the maxilla; thearticular process of the condyle was dis-torted. In fact, all the hones that themuscles of mastication were attached towere undeveloped, and there was a de-viation of the nasal bones. The musclesthat controlled the movements of thelower jaw were noticeably atrophied andpale, as compared to the normal Bakers article, describing these ex-periments, was published in the Febru
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