Principles and practice of operative dentistry . years. The cuspids are completed at about the age of 23 years. The second molars are completed at about the age of 3 years. Fig. 212 shows the jaws of a child at three to three and a half years ofage. MORBID PRIMARY DENTITION. The eruption of the teeth in a normal child is productive of so littlegeneral or local disturbance that many times the teeth make their appear-ance within the mouth before the parent or nurse have realized the factthat the process of teething had really begun ; while, upon the otherhand, in children with impaired health an
Principles and practice of operative dentistry . years. The cuspids are completed at about the age of 23 years. The second molars are completed at about the age of 3 years. Fig. 212 shows the jaws of a child at three to three and a half years ofage. MORBID PRIMARY DENTITION. The eruption of the teeth in a normal child is productive of so littlegeneral or local disturbance that many times the teeth make their appear-ance within the mouth before the parent or nurse have realized the factthat the process of teething had really begun ; while, upon the otherhand, in children with impaired health and low vitality it often plays a Fio. 212. ? ?:.-. Jaws of a child of three to three and a half years of age. prominent part in exciting various morbid conditions of the digestive,nervous, respiratory, and dermal systems. The subject becomes, therefore,one of considerable interest, alike to the general practitioner and to thedental specialist. There is no doubt that the dangers from dentition havebeen greatly exaggerated by some authorities, and that parents are oftenunnecessarily anxious for their offspring during this period ; yet it must beborne in mind that in certain temperaments and under various physicalconditions and environment there is a real degree of danger present, andthat morbid phenomena are sometimes excited which may progress to afatal termination. According to the mortality tables of London, as cited by West, denti-tion was assigned as the cause of death of per cent, of all children Ix-ciduous tooth
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