The dentiste de la jeunesse, or, The way to have sound and beautiful teeth, preceded by the advice of the ancient poets upon the preservation of the teeth : designed for the more intelligent orders of parents, and guardians and containing some useful hints to the faculty / by J.D. Duval, dentist ; translated and supplied with notes by J. Atkinson, surgeon-dentist.

  • Duval, J.-R. (Jacques-Réné), 1758-1854.
Date:
1820
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Credit: The dentiste de la jeunesse, or, The way to have sound and beautiful teeth, preceded by the advice of the ancient poets upon the preservation of the teeth : designed for the more intelligent orders of parents, and guardians and containing some useful hints to the faculty / by J.D. Duval, dentist ; translated and supplied with notes by J. Atkinson, surgeon-dentist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the milk teeth are liable to decay in young subjects, and perhaps even more so than at a maturer age; as they would probably last for life if they did not become diseased, they require, from the parents and the dentist, constant watchfulness: frequently the caries takes place from the first year after they have cut, which happens more especially in infants whose saliva is viscid and of a gluey nature, or whose hands and feet i^re subject to chilblains, or in whom certain cutaneous irruptions have disappeared. In general the first large grinders are the earliest attack- ed, afterwards the inscisors, while the small grinders and secondary large ones, are not attacked till a later period. The sooner the teeth become affected with caries after their cutting, the more rapid is its progress; which is a circumstance that should not be forgotten ■when we endeavour to preserve the teeth against the ravages of this disease. It is important to consider the constitution of those children, whose first teeth are easily affected with caries, and to ascertain the maladies to which they are subject, whether they are ginal defect of structure, or from a deficiency of phosphate of lime; and Mr. Fox observes, that this seems to be proved by the common observation, that they become decayed in pairs; that is, those teeth which are formed at the same time, being in a similar state of imper- fections, have not the power to resist the causes of disease, and, therefore, nearly about the same period, they exhibit signs of decay, while those teeth which have been formed at another time, when a more healthy action has existed, have remained perfectly sound to the end of life.