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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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Fanton-Touvet, however, gives an example of a supernumerary tooth implanted in the palatine arch.

Branch a describes a little negro boy who had two large teeth in the nose; his dentition was otherwise normal, but a portion of the nose was destroyed by ulceration.

Roy describes a Hindoo lad of fourteen who had a tooth in the nose, supposed to have been a tumor.

It was of the canine type, and was covered with enamel to the junction with the root, which was deeply imbedded in the side and upper part of the antrum.

The boy had a perfect set of permanent teeth and no deformity, swelling, or cystic formation of the jaw.


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