On the liability of different classes of teeth to decay / by Adams Parker.

  • Parker, S. Adams (Samuel Adams), 1831-1896.
Date:
1874
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Credit: On the liability of different classes of teeth to decay / by Adams Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from the ‘British Journal of Dental Science,’ October, 1874. ON THE LIABILITY OF DIFFERENT CLASSES OF TEETH TO DECAY. By Adams Parker, Esq., L.D.S.R.C.S. In this month’s number of the ‘ Dental Cosmos’ will be found a paper from the pen of the late J. F. Flagg, D.D.S., on the relative liability of teeth to decay, forming part of a contribution to that Journal on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. Some years ago, when Senior Surgeon Dentist to the Dental Hospital in this town, I was induced to make a series of observations upon this subject, and on reference to the Annual Report of the Hospital for the year 1859 I find the statistics alluded to, which I have embodied in the form of a short paper for your Journal. This statement was made from 1952 operations performed during the year 1859, and no less a number than 1494 were performed on patients under the age of twenty, and out of the same number of operations 1217 were upon the most valua- ble teeth in the head, viz. the molars, at ages ranging from five years up to eighty years of age. I also drew up a similar statement with reference to the teeth of children up to five years of age, a period of life the most important as regards the future state of the Dental organs. It is well known how intimately connected the second teeth are with the first, and that disease in particular, and not unfrequently an operation imperfectly performed upon the latter, may lead to serious and perhaps irreparable mischief to the former. This was most forcibly impressed