ANIMAL DENTISTRY. 



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promptly passed into the mouth, and as the horse becomes 

 attracted by the unusual sound and sensation produced by 

 the filing no further resistance may be offered and the hand 

 may then be placed unresented into the interdental space to 

 guide the float. 



Enamel points will recur in about three months, but not 

 to a sufficient degree to produce injury until the twelfth to 

 the eighteenth month after the operation. At the age of five 



Fig. 141. 



Position of the Hands and File to Complete the Blunting Process on the 



Superior Molars, Externally. 



to eight years their recurrence is more rapid than in aged 

 animals. 



Modifications — When one of the arcades contains a de- 

 cayed or elongated molar the normal arcades are floated 

 and filed before any attention is given to the abnormal one. 

 The painful part of the operation is performed last to avoid 

 the resistance that might be provoked thereby, and when a 

 tooth is extracted, to avoid working in a bloody mouth. 



