Treatment of Malocclusion of the Teeth and Fractures of the Maxillæ: Angle's System (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This may explain a frequent repetition of terms and methods which would be inadmissible in a narrative, but which is here indulged for the convenience of the student, that the necessity for back reference may be reduced to the minimum.

A poverty of terminology has long been felt in the science of orthodontia, but it has been deemed better to expand the meanings of terms employed, in many instances, to meet requirements than to increase the vocabulary by introduction of new words. Thus the term malocclusion is often used, for convenience, to ex press the condition of malposition of a tooth which has no occlu sion at all with other teeth. Elevating is a term employed with similar license. We may speak of elevating a tooth in the upper arch when we really pull it down, and so with other usage the meaning of which should be clear.

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