Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . Fig. 189.—Result of Resection. have been reported: the first by Dr. AVayne Babcock, thesecond and third by Dr. Blair, the fourth by Dr. Cathcartand Dr. Solomons, of Charleston, S. C. A fifth case is herewith recorded. A boy, when four years of age, fell down a balustrade,striking his chin against the floor and fracturing the man-dible in several places, resulting in complete ankylosis ofthe jaw so that the deciduous teeth were extracted and thepermanent teeth came in without any regard to normalgrowth, owing to
Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . Fig. 189.—Result of Resection. have been reported: the first by Dr. AVayne Babcock, thesecond and third by Dr. Blair, the fourth by Dr. Cathcartand Dr. Solomons, of Charleston, S. C. A fifth case is herewith recorded. A boy, when four years of age, fell down a balustrade,striking his chin against the floor and fracturing the man-dible in several places, resulting in complete ankylosis ofthe jaw so that the deciduous teeth were extracted and thepermanent teeth came in without any regard to normalgrowth, owing to the pressure. At the age of twenty-seven, or twenty-three years after 384 ANKYLOSIS. Fig. 190-192.—Incision Through Skin and Needle Passing Under MaxillaInto Mouth. Fig. 190.—Method of introducing pedicle needle, with eyein the end threaded so as to be withdrawn through the mouth, and for thepurpose of drawing the Gigh saw through back of the bone. Fig. 191.—Gigh saw in position, showing method of sawing through the bone, with themouth retracted so that the saw does no damage to the soft tissues. —Severed jaw advanced to the position where it is to be held to the up-per teeth with Angles bands and wires. PERMANENT ANTKYLOSIS 385 the accident, it was possible to get a silver ten-cent piecebetween some of the teeth, but there was absolutely no mas-ticating power. The chin had so far receded that the gingi-val margin in the median line below was five-eighths of aninch back of the incisors above. This was the one point ofentrance for food, and he had lived on soft foods, especiallyprepared, during the twenty-three years. The operation consisted i
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