The significance of the natural form and arrangement of the dental arches of man : with a consideration of the changes which occur as a result of their artificial derangement by filing or by the extraction of teeth / by Isaac B. Davenport.

  • Davenport, Isaac Burnet.
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[1887]
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Credit: The significance of the natural form and arrangement of the dental arches of man : with a consideration of the changes which occur as a result of their artificial derangement by filing or by the extraction of teeth / by Isaac B. Davenport. 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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    neck, and at last must be destroyed. Weakened by decay, by filing, and the cutting away necessary for root-treatment, and robbed of their support, the teeth break down under the ever-increasing strain brought upon them. Extraction affords about the first relief to such patients, and artificial dentures are a boon to those who have been compelled for years to painfully hobble through their meals Fig. IT—X. without even a crutch to relieve the irritated gums and the mutilated sensitive stumps of teeth. Some pretend that the results described above are only true when separations have been made solely for the convenience of the operator, but if that is true it speaks badly for the honesty and Fig. 17—Y. ability of the mass of those who have been or are practicing this method. As for the large proportion of cases I have seen, the above statement would be applicable,—the degree varying only as regards the time that has elasped since the filing was done. I therefore prefer to believe the fault to be in the method.