The art of preventing the loss of the teeth, familiarly explained : also, an improved system of supplying their deficiencies and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth renovator; accompanied with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott.

  • Scott, Joseph (Dentist)
Date:
1833
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Credit: The art of preventing the loss of the teeth, familiarly explained : also, an improved system of supplying their deficiencies and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth renovator; accompanied with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the correct form of the jaw is preserved ; but if the tem- porary teeth be removed before the permanent ones are so far advanced as to be ready to occupy their situation, the support of the alveolar processes being thus lost, the arch of the jaw contracts, and when, subsequently, the permanent teeth are fully formed, there is not room for them to range in their proper situation. Thus the ope- ration which was intended to prevent irregularity, be- comes the cause of its occurrence, and that in its very worst form; producing a want of accordance between the size of the teeth and that of the jaw. I have seen so many instances in which this result has taken place, that I have perfect confidence in stating the opinion. The following rules will in some measure be a guide to those parents who cannot at all times procure the ad- vice of a scientific practitioner. They are those recom- mended by the above-mentioned gentleman, whose opi- nions and practice I highly approve of, and refer the me- dical practitioner to his more copious description in his Treatise on the Diseases and Anatomy of the Teeth, pp. 89, &c., which rules I have here briefly extracted Is follow:— If the inferior central permanent incisores (the two middle cutting teeth in the under jaw) have actually appeared through the gum behind the temporary, the latter, even if they be not yet loosened, may be removed • though I have seldom or never found any ultimate injury to result from leaving them even till the permanent ones