The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practitioners, heads of families, and others, travelling or residing in distant parts, to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums : including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc., etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott, dentist.

  • Scott, Joseph.
Date:
1831
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Credit: The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practitioners, heads of families, and others, travelling or residing in distant parts, to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums : including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc., etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott, dentist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    then their antagonists: sometimes, however, the con- trary happens, as those in the upper jaw first make their appearance ; but in either case they are mostly followed by their opposites in about a month afterwards. These, in a few weeks, are followed by their laterals in the same order; in about three or four months after which, the anterior grinders of the under jaw come forth, and are shortly afterwards met by their antagonists in the upper jaw. The eye-teeth follow in a similar manner ; and ge- nerally before the child attains the third year of its age, the posterior grinders shoot forth, and the temporary set of teeth are completed. The diseases of the tem- porary set of teeth require the same treatment as the permanent ones. Of the Formation of the Permanent Teeth. Having before stated that, in a very early stage of the formation of the temporary teeth, the rudiments intended to form the permanent or adult set, were in a state of progression, it is now necessary to mention that those rudiments are firmly and closely attached to the tempo- rary teeth, contained in the same socket; and, as they become large, a division of the pulps takes place, a' separate socket being formed for each. In this state1 they remain connected by means of the membranes and the gums. The pulps commence hardening on their tips: the process of their formation proceeds simi-