The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth, and diseases. To which is added A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth / [John Hunter].

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793
Date:
1803
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Credit: The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth, and diseases. To which is added A practical treatise on the diseases of the teeth / [John Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the sockets for the Teeth. This edge is called in each bone the Alveolar Process*. Behind the Alveolar Pro- cesses there are two horizontal lamellae, which, uniting together, form part of the roof of the Mouth, which is the partition between the Mouth and the Nose f. This plate, or partition, is situated about half an inch higher than the lower edge of the Alveolar Process ; and this gives the roof of the Mouth a considerable hollowness. The use of the Upper Jaw is to form part of the Parieties of the Mouth, Nose, and Orbits; to give a basis, or supply the Alveolar Process, for the superior row of Teeth, and to counteract the Lower Jaw: but it has no motion itself upon the bones of the Head and Face. * Vide Plate I. Fig. i. a, b, <•, d. f Vide Plate I. Fig. i. t, e.