Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t8.2

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2. The term *dant-olūkhala*, or tooth-socket, denotes the alveolar processes. These processes are, in reality, only portions of the maxillary bones; but Ātreya-Charaka, with whom Vāgbhaṭa I agrees, counts them as separate bones—a procedure which affects his general view of the two maxillaries, fully explained in § 65. Suśruta, in consequence of his counting the maxillaries as a pair of single, undivided bones, discards the socket-bones altogether from his list (§ 27) and counts only the teeth.