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Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1914 (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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d that they did improve in generalas well as local development. In onecase the cousin of one of these pa-tients already bears a shriveled legupon one side which cannot reach theground and is incapable of serving anyreally useful purpose, and the membersof the family at least believe that hissymptoms began in much the same wayas those of the little fellow for whom1 performed maxillary expansion, andwho is now sturdy, evenly growing, welldeveloped, and in all respects a progres-sive youth. 144 THE DEXTAL COSMOS. THE INFLUENTIAL FACTORS INLARY EXPANSION. MAXIL- The observation and treatment oflarge numbers of cases of this class hasmade it possible to outline certain con-ditions and results that may be so fully the orthodontists and dentists in thispromised increase of their usefulness areso great that their due consideration isimperative. We do know that followingmaxillary separation by rapid expansionin individuals presenting the clinicalpicture I have described, there is mani- Fig. 8.
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Skiagram of the head of one of these patients, showing the enormous size of the frontalsinus and the peculiarly restricted sella turcica, which is outlined with white dots. Inthis case there were not only peculiarities of growth of shoulderblades and other parts,but a correspondingly limited mentality. Just how much benefit maxillary expansionmay ultimately accomplish for this patient of twenty-five years it is too early to attemptto decide, but a measure of relief has been given to his almost constant headaches, andother symptoms of frontal sinus disease seem to have abated or entirely disappeared. Gen-eral trophic as well as nervous conditions seem to be improved. demonstrated as to warrant their defi-nite acceptance. Other conclusions, asalready indicated, must for the timebeing only be considered as importantpossibilities, and yet the known factspoint the way so plainly along this lineof scientific reasoning, and the wonder-ful benefits that seem to lie just before fested in addit

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