. The Dental cosmos. rophy. This was so evident,her mother said, that dressmakers had con-siderable difficulty in fitting her nasal obstruction, arrested develop-ment of the lower part of the face, recedingchin, and contracted upper and lower dentalarches. Two upper bicuspids—one on eachside—had been removed by some dentist,with the mistaken idea of correcting dentalirregularity. When she was about nine years BROWN.—UPPER MAXILLARY CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION. 149 old the spaces thus caused were almost com-pletely closed by contraction of the upperdental arch. One lower bicuspid o
. The Dental cosmos. rophy. This was so evident,her mother said, that dressmakers had con-siderable difficulty in fitting her nasal obstruction, arrested develop-ment of the lower part of the face, recedingchin, and contracted upper and lower dentalarches. Two upper bicuspids—one on eachside—had been removed by some dentist,with the mistaken idea of correcting dentalirregularity. When she was about nine years BROWN.—UPPER MAXILLARY CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION. 149 old the spaces thus caused were almost com-pletely closed by contraction of the upperdental arch. One lower bicuspid on the rightside had been extracted about the same timewith the same effect. Treatment: The upper maxilla was read-justed by maxillary expansion, and the lowerarch made to correspond. Both arches were REASONS FOR BELIEF IN MEDIAN MAXIL-LARY SUTURE SEPARATION. After approximately fifteen yearscontinuous experience in widening dentalarches by rapid expansion for the pur-pose of enlarging the nares through Fig. Skiagram of the head of a young man seventeen years old. (The headaches and other symp-toms in this case were markedly improved as soon as the separation of the maxillae wasaccomplished as shown in Fig. 14.) increased in an antero-posterior directionsufficiently to regain as far as possible thespace lost through extraction of the teeth,after which a dentist, Dr. P. B. Wright ofMilwaukee, inserted bridge work to retainthe full size of the jaws thus secured. Result: Increase in health and from excessive nervousness. Improve-ment in back and shoulders. She finished herhigh-school course and is now successfullyemployed in hospital work. separation of the median palatine suture,or, as I have previously called it, read-justment of the maxillary bones/3 withalmost invariably satisfactory results ingiving at least a measure of intranasalrelief, it is with surprise that T note amore or less marked tendency amongorthodontists to question the practicabil-ity of
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