Identifier: dentalcosmos5419whit (find matches)
Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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I should like to ask those who claimthat all malocclusions of the teeth arisefrom childhood diseases, What kind ofdisease could possibly cause this maloc-clusion ? It must be one that is sufficientin itself to place and hold the entire lowerdenture back of its normal position untilit starts the distal jumping of the per-manent cusps, for up to that momentocclusion can have no influence in for-cing them back. Furthermore, is it evena reasonable possibility that such an oc- extent with artificial force, and how com-paratively easy it is to move either ofthe dentures forward. Let us suppose that adenoids have in-terrupted the forward growth of the man-dible with its teeth (if one can conceiveof such a condition without a like effectupon the upper jaw), and that after thefirst permanent molars have becomefixed in their mal-interdigitating occlu-sion the adenoids are removed or disap-pear, as they usually do at about twelve 156 THE DENTAL COSMOS. years of age—now, when the mandiblecontin

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