Fauchard then passes on to speak of trepanning of the teeth when they are worn away or decayed and cause pain.
He, however, understands the term trepanning in a very wide sense, comprehending therein the use of any instrument whatever (even a needle or a pin) with which one penetrates into the inner cavity of the teeth.
Great credit is due to Kornelis for having first brought into usage the instrument makers’ emery wheels for grinding down sharp edges of teeth, thus initiating the practice of trepanning the teeth with sphere-shaped burs.
Meibom rejects the operation of Molinetti, that is, the trepanning of the cavity from the front, the lesion produced in the soft parts of the face being likely to give rise to unpleasant consequences.
When we come to speak of Archigenes, we shall see how he, in certain cases, advised trepanningthe teeth.
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.
He says that to open the sinus the simple extraction of a molar suffices in the greater number of cases, the trepanning of the alveolus not being generally necessary.
When trepanning was the fashion there is no doubt that the operation was performed in many different ways.
See also on this question generally Fletcher "On Prehistoric Trepanning and Cranial Amulets," Washington, 1882.
I made the diagnosis that a splinter of bone was pressing upon the brain, and that the surgical operation known as trepanning was required.
He comes no more to Coralio nor to Doctor Gregg, who sits in vain, wagging his redundant beard, waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy.
Gregg, with his trepanning story smouldering within him, was a whiskered volcano, always showing signs of imminent eruption, and was not to be considered in the ranks of those who might contribute to the amelioration of ennui.
He avoided Goodwin, and his skilful escape from the trepanning story of Dr.
Who can say whether trepanning for epilepsy--a practice now almost abandoned, but which was formerly in usage, was not adopted as a means of opening a door by which the demons possessing the patient might be allowed to escape?
Boulongue, in his work on Montenegro, gives a long account of this usage of the natives of the Black Mountain; they have recourse to trepanning on the smallest provocation, simply because they have headaches.
The first example of pre-historic trepanning was discovered in 1685.
Indeed, it cannot be said that the practice of trepanning is as yet extinct.
It was found also that trepanning skulls had been in practice among the aborigines of America.
Sure, it is one of our trepanning decoys, sent forth for a champion to defend those ladies' engaged honour, whom our stage is this day to present!
Is not this better, my boys, than trepanning an old drolling friar for a sequestered bond?
Not until 1908 was the problem solved by Paulesco of Bucharest, who devised a way of reaching it by trepanning the skull.
Trepanning of the skull, the geologic record indicates, was done even by the cave man.
Although it is now pretty well established that in these prehistoric times trepanning was practised as far back as the Stone Age,[143] it does not appear that this skull from Locras (B.
Sutz, Schaffis, and Locras, and from the latter there was also a skull having a circular portion of it cut out, as if trepanning had been performed.
They are paid by the piece, those wiring andtrepanning earn from $3 to $4.
The trepanning and wiring are done altogether by women in England.
Possibly it was done with a kind of flint wimble with three teeth, much like the instrument used to-day in trepanning by the Berbers in L'Aurés, who cure even headaches by this method.
It is the first time that cases of trepanning have been found in Mexico.
Three trepanning perforations were then made in the bone, from each of which the pus issued in great quantities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trepanning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bore; boring; penetration; perforation; piercing; puncture
