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  • "English tube-teeth". The introduction of artificial crowns in England. Those made with wood decayed by moisture (Fig. 3). The screw-pivot used in the patented Foster crown (1885) had a flat base with a perforation in the porcelain body to accommodate the pivot's top, which securely anchored it to a tooth. (Fig 4).
  • Etruscan appliance for supporting three artificial teeth.
  • Dental crowns.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Fauchard and Chemant's "pivot tooth"
  • Artificial teeth : a complete set, one guinea, 1896?
  • N. Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis
  • Crown fitted to a tooth with the use of a twisted wire
  • Preparation for the shell or telescope crown
  • Rebuilding a tooth crown with an artifical one.
  • Patient biting on a roll of cotton
  • Crystal of erythritol
  • Cells crawling across crystals
  • Cells crawling across ceramic crystals