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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    to fulfil;,^before the file could be used, it would be necessary to calm the irritation, otherwise we should augment its intensity; so likewise if by filing a tooth which is only too sensible, pain should be excited, the operation should be suspended, and resumed at the end of a month or two, at which period the file becomes more supportable, as if the cure of the caries had already commenced ; but the example of some teeth having been thus preserved, and the ca- ries arrested in its course, should not induce US' to relax in our operations, until the whole is destroyed. It should not be concealed however, that notwith- sianding .the general success of filing, there are cases where it has been used with the greatest caution, and yet the caries has proceeded, but gene- rally in another part of the tooth than that vfhich was filed; this unfortunate circumstance evidently proceeds from a defect of the whole system which requires the aid of medicine. In some cases it may be sufficient to scrape away with a little steel instrument, the carious part of a tooth instead of filing, and which is sometimes performed after filing to render it more effectual; there always remains, however, a slight excavation, but when it is made of a proper form, the food will not lodge there, but will be easily removed by washing the mouth; in stopping the tooth also, the carious part should be scraped, in order that every vestage may be removed, for the excavations are often too deep for the successful application of the file.