The diseases of children's teeth : their prevention and treatment : a manual for medical practitioners and students / by R. Denison Pedley.

  • Pedley, R. Denison (Richard Denison), 1857-1925.
Date:
[1895]
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Credit: The diseases of children's teeth : their prevention and treatment : a manual for medical practitioners and students / by R. Denison Pedley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. THE ERUPTIOJV OF TEETH. AS is common amongst Mammalia, Man is provided with two sets of teeth, the first to serve from infancy through a part of child- hood, whilst the second set, which is nearly complete at puberty, is intended to last the rest of the life-time There are many points of anatomical interest connected with the eruption of these two sets of teeth and the change from one to the other, but the physiological aspects are of more prac- tical importance in consideration of the neces- sity which exists, at this body-building period of life, for the proper action of all the organs concerned in nutrition. The temporary or milk teeth are twenty in number, ten in each jaw, five on each side, right and left, viz., two incisors, a central and lateral, one canine, and. two molars, 1st and 2nd temporary molars.'' In those