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 and teeth renovator / by Joseph Scott.

  • Scott, Joseph.
Date:
1834
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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 and teeth renovator / by Joseph Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    corroded state, the extraction of the tooth becomes im- periously necessary, whereas had the patient been treated in the manner I have laid down for treatment of the tooth-ache in this work, the tooth would probably have been preserved for many years, if not for life, with- out pain or inconvenience. I cannot too strongly impress my readers with the ill effects of suffering their teeth to be stopped while in a state of pain or tenderness; if, as soon as decay is dis- covered, the speck be removed and the cavity properly stopped, the decay may be prevented from reaching the nerve ; but if the nerve (by inflammation) be risen out of its chamber, stopping the tooth with any compo- sition, however good it may be, is sure to increase the pain to an unbearable degree; for even the fitting of arti- ficial teeth should not be persevered in unless the gums be in a healthy state. Persons beginning to feel the loss of their teeth are not unfrequently tempted to supply their places with bone* teeth ; it therefore becomes my duty to make known their defects:—they are so soon destroyed by the powerful effects of the saliva and heat of the mouth, as not unfrequently to need replacing by a new set twice * When the term bone is used, it should be remembered that it applies to sea-horse ivory or any other kind of animal bone—human teeth included.