A History of Dentistry from the most Ancient Times until the end of the Eighteenth Century

by Vincenzo Guerini

Fig. 88

Straight forceps and crane’s bill or crow’s bill forceps (Fauchard).

Among the most usual operations, the author enumerates transplantation and especially replantation of the teeth.[458] Whenever, says Fauchard, a wrong tooth is extracted by accident, it ought to be immediately replanted, and the same ought to be done when violent pain renders it necessary to extract a tooth that is not much decayed, as the patient is thus relieved without losing the tooth.[459] Fauchard adds that this operation succeeds excellently in the case of incisors and canines, and very often, too, with small molars.

Fig. 89

Cutting forceps (Fauchard).

Fig. 90

Cutting forceps (Fauchard).