Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron].

  • Cameron, D. A
Date:
1838
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are told respecting the advantages of filling up decayed teeth, even hy writers on dental subjects, as if they were ordinary matters. But it occurs to us, these were intended only for the public. In this case, our motto must be, Quitscant pace. To fill up cavities with gold, or white foil, which includes platinum, silver, and tin leaf, by hard pressure, is the most effectual means of making the teeth solid again. This method, however, can be adopted only when the teeth are free from pain, as extreme agony almost always follows from filling up tender parts, and as the teeth we thereby attempted to preserve must in con- sequence be often extracted. The French dentists, who have been re- markable for their assiduity as well as for their general acquirements, and who have almost always taken the lead in the profes- •sion, thought that an improvement could be made on the preceding method, and for this end introduced the fusible metal, which is melted at a small degree of heat. r 4