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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    us hereditary or acquired, as these maladies are a very frequent cause of caries in the teeth; without enter- ing into minute distinctions, they are generally corn- batted by a good regimen and certain medicines, among which may be reckoned the antiscorbutic wine or sirup, as well as the feruginous class of to- nics ; in many cases they will be found useful when combined ; but we shall only fulfil the curative in- dication imperfectly, unless we endeavour to remove from the teeth the destroying cause, and to stop its progress by remedies adapted to each particular case; here the dentist will often do well to call in the aid of a scientific physician. Although the caries which attacks the teeth of young persons, shews itself under different aspects, as 1 have demonstrated elsewhere, (1) the change of colour of the affected part will always distinguish it; generally there is a black spot which is easily per- ceived, especially when the teeth are not placed too close together j sometimes the spot has a grey tinge, being covered with enamel; in the former case the disease usually commences at the sides of the front teeth, or upon the bodies of the grinders, and at the beginning, there is only slight pain upon the access of air or when touched with a tooth-pick, but afterwards it becomes more painful: in the second case the part attacked is almost always the anterior part of the in- scisors ; covered with a viscid slime it is less visible (IJ Bulletin de la facultt de medicine de Paris annee 1808, page 55 et 115.