At the time of
report, six years after the accident, they were still firmly in
position. Pettyjohn reports a successful case of
tooth-replantation in his young daughter of two, who fell on the
cellar stairs, completely excising the central incisors. The
alveolar process of the right jaw was fractured, and the gum
lacerated to the entire length of the root. The teeth were placed
in a tepid normal saline solution, and the child chloroformed,
narcosis being induced in sleep; the gums were cleaned
antiseptically, and 3 1/2 hours afterward the child had the teeth
firmly in place. They had been out of the mouth fully an hour.
Four weeks afterward they were as firm as ever. By their
experiments Gluck and Magnus prove that there is a return of
activity after transplantation of muscle. After excision of
malignant tumors of muscles, Helferich of Munich, and Lange of
New York, have filled the gap left by the excision of the muscle
affected by the tumor with transplanted muscles from dogs. Gluck
has induced reproduction of lost tendons by grafting them with
cat-gut, and according to Ashhurst, Peyrot has filled the gaps in
retracted tendons by transplanting tendons, taken in one case
from a dog, and in another from a cat.
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