Injuries and diseases of the jaws . r, two after measles, and one after disease appears to occur most frequently about the ageof five or six years, when each jaw contains the whole of thefirst set, and the germs, more or less advanced, of the secondset of teeth; but Mr. Bryant has recorded {PathologicalTransactions, vol. x.) a case of exfoliation of the intermaxil-lary bones after measles, in a child of three (fig. 42), andthe boy Barton Blackman, already referred to, is an instanceof the kind, at the age of ten. The disease first shows itself a few weeks after the occur-rence of
Injuries and diseases of the jaws . r, two after measles, and one after disease appears to occur most frequently about the ageof five or six years, when each jaw contains the whole of thefirst set, and the germs, more or less advanced, of the secondset of teeth; but Mr. Bryant has recorded {PathologicalTransactions, vol. x.) a case of exfoliation of the intermaxil-lary bones after measles, in a child of three (fig. 42), andthe boy Barton Blackman, already referred to, is an instanceof the kind, at the age of ten. The disease first shows itself a few weeks after the occur-rence of the feverish attack, in tenderness of the mouth andfoetor of the breath, and the gum is seen to be separatedfrom the teeth and alveolus. The disease is remarkablv 108 NECROSIS OF THE JAWS. symmetrical^ appearing almost simultaneously on both sidesof the jaw and rapidly denuding the bone^ thus leading tonecrosis and subsequent exfoliation of considerable portionsof it. These usually include the whole depth of the alveolus. Fig.
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