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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    strongest reason for setting a high value on those that remain, it should be observed that nothing will tend more to their preservation than imme- diately supplying the places of those which have been removed. Where this is neglected, the remaining teeth will not be likely to prove of any considerable durability. When deficiencies of the teeth are not soon supplied, those that are left speedily become loose. Whenever a tooth is lost, therefore, its place should be immediately supplied by another, if only to support and preserve those which remain. Those therefore who have lost their teeth, and as a natural consequence, suffer from indigestion, should certainly consider the re- placing them as the first step necessary to regain their former health and comfort. .Also of the faculty of speech, much more may be accomplished than might be considered possible. The importance of the teeth to all, must in this respect be great, but by public speakers it must, of course, be felt most par- ticularly ; still it is certain the delivery may not only be restored, but in many cases even improved. This may indeed be considered as one of the most perfect triumphs of human ingenuity, in obviating the effects of personal privation; if a hand or a foot be lost, the utmost that can be