The suture then turns abruptly forwards until it reaches the level of the anterior margin of the alveolus of the sixth tooth, when it bends suddenly inwards to meet its fellow.
Skull: Sagittal crest absent in females and barely present in males; least width of braincase more than distance from alveolus of incisor to middle of lateral border of P^4 at alveolar border.
Color darker; least width of braincase not equal to (usually more than) the distance from the alveolus of incisor to the anterior border of the alveolus of the first upper molar.
Distance between the anterior margin of the alveolus of the first cheek-tooth and the posterior margin of the alveolus of the last upper cheek-tooth, on one side of the skull.
But after this operation an incessant flow of humors from thealveolus of the extracted tooth took place.
A drop of lymph gathered at the bottom of the alveolus hardens and constitutes the first beginning in the formation of the teeth.
When abundant hemorrhage follows the extraction of a tooth, this may often be made to cease by applying a small, very compact ball of linen into the alveolus and maintaining it there by pressure during one or two hours.
The canine tooth, situated obliquely, having been extracted, its alveolus was found to communicate with the antrum.
He says that after an extraction the walls of the alveolus approach one another, and the cavity is gradually obliterated.
In cases of empyema of Highmore’s antrum, Hunter advises the opening of the cavity through the alveolus of the first or second large molar.
For the diseased alveolus the tooth becomes, in a certain manner, an extraneous body, of which it tends to rid itself.
After trepanning the alveolus and emptying the cavity, the opening should be closed with a conically shaped peg to prevent its slipping into the cavity.
I extracted the tooth very carefully so as not to break it, neither were the gum nor the alveolus injured in any way.
The surgeon observed that the liquid injected into the fistulous opening in the neck issued from the alveolus of the last molar.
Limited portions of thealveolus are frequently broken in the extraction of teeth.
The alveolar process, in whole or in part, may be separated from the body of the bone by a severe blow, such as the kick of a horse, and when the whole alveolus is detached, it may carry with it the hard palate.
The margins of the cleft in the lip are also attached to the alveolusby firm reflections of the mucous membrane.
They really originate in the periosteum of the alveolus or in the periodontal membrane, and are essentially of the nature of fibro-sarcoma.
Basilar length" is basilar length of Hensel and the anterior point probably was the posterior border of the alveolus of incisor two.
Depth of rostrum in front of premolars" seems to have been taken perpendicular to the inferior longitudinal line of the rostrum, approximately one-half millimeter anterior to the alveolus of the anteriormost cheek tooth.
Corpet supposes the allusion to be to the game called "duodecim scripta," which resembled our backgammon; the alveolus being a kind of table on which the dice were thrown, with a rim to prevent their rolling off.
In the Atlantic City specimen the axis of the tooth where it emerges from the alveolus is 91 mm.
The portion of the tooth above the alveolus is 11 mm.
The alveolus lies entirely behind the symphysis, its anterior end being 160 mm.
The surface of all that part of the tooth which is contained in the alveolus and covered by the gum above it is rugose, while the part above the gum is quite smooth and highly polished.
Distance from anterior end of mandible to alveolus 166 .
At the alveolus the transverse breadth of the tooth is 5 mm.
From anterior border of alveolus of M1 to posterior alveolus of M3.
If a tooth in one of those situations be carious, or be suspected as the cause of the sinusitis, its extraction and the drilling of the alveolus may be carried out under the same anæsthetic.
If the antrum be also suppurating and a suitable tooth socket be available, the alveolus will have been drilled at one of these preliminary treatments.
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