The etiology of osseous deformities of the head, face, jaws and teeth . Fig. 126. ment is very marked, and the maxilla is unusually lateral incisors have never erupted, and the cuspids havemoved forward and taken their places. The jaw is very nar-row across at the bicuspids, and much contracted anterior tothem. The jaw is of a marked V-shape. Case XVH, Fig. 127.—M. L., aged thirteen years;nationality, American. Height of vault, .62 of an inch. Hehas breathed through the mouth for the past six is considerable arrest of development of the bones ofthe nose. The left nostril
The etiology of osseous deformities of the head, face, jaws and teeth . Fig. 126. ment is very marked, and the maxilla is unusually lateral incisors have never erupted, and the cuspids havemoved forward and taken their places. The jaw is very nar-row across at the bicuspids, and much contracted anterior tothem. The jaw is of a marked V-shape. Case XVH, Fig. 127.—M. L., aged thirteen years;nationality, American. Height of vault, .62 of an inch. Hehas breathed through the mouth for the past six is considerable arrest of development of the bones ofthe nose. The left nostril has collapsed, and the right nostrilpartially, so that the patient can breathe through that sideonly, and with difficulty. As will be observed, the jaw in this case is well developed. 374 ETIOLOGY OF OSSEOUS DEFORMITIES OF The forward movement of the incisors is due entirely to alocal cause, that of irritation, produced by the lower teethstriking against the roof of the mouth, which caused a depositof bone-cells at that Fig. 127
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