A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell.

  • Eskell, Frederick A.
Date:
1862
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Credit: A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    y —it seems a ruin—the wreck, the mockery, the caricature of its former self. Many persons who have not been in the habit of attending to their teeth, and who have been long accustomed to see them discoloured, are apt to imagine they have become injured beyond recovery. This is, in many cases, an entirely erroneous idea; it is not the surface of their teeth which they have been accustomed to see, but a concre- tion which is constantly forming, and which, from its having been suffered to accumulate, has, to a great degree, concealed the teeth. When this is once removed, which may be easily done, the teeth will immediately be seen in a greatly improved state, and of their natural colour. And here it may be proper to remark on the practice of those who seem to have contracted a determined habit of neglecting their teeth, and who appear, if indeed they think at all on the subject, as if they considered the state of their teeth as not in any manner influencing their personal appearance ; whereas, almost every one who is accustomed to observe is aware there is scarcely a greater personal recommendation than clean teeth, and scarcely an occasion of more universal and involuntary aversion than the contrary. Did such persons, however, perceive