The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles.

  • Nicholles, John.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The teeth, in relation to beauty, voice and health. Being the result of twenty years' practical experience and assiduous study to produce the full development and regularity of those essential organs / by John Nicholles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ]32 performed, sucli substitutes may last for many years, and may be, not only ornamental, but useful, as regards speech, though they rarely afford much assistance in mastication. This operation is simple in efficient hands, but it requires great care and no slight portion of dexterity; if the drill be improperly applied, inffammation will ensue with all its usual con- sequences, for though you destroy the pulp you do not destroy the periosteum. It is impossible to lay down any precise rule as to the mode of fixing artificial teeth; this must depend on circumstances, which can only be understood and appreciated by the dentist. Still there are two points I should wish to impress upon my readers; the one is, that the artificial teeth should be so contrived as to lend support to the remaining natural organs; the other is that all dental substitutes should be easily removable at the pleasure of the wearer, for if the saliva be allowed to re- main in perpetual contact with the gums, the