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

  • Cameron, D. A
Date:
1838
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Credit: Plain advice on the care of the teeth / [D.A. Cameron]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their structure and adaptation, no organ is more strikingly impressed with marks of supernal goodness and intelligence. Notwithstanding the evils common to them, yet their mechanism is most admirable, and no effort of human wit has ever been able to improve upon it, even in imagination. In the most beautiful denture least apt to decay, the teeth are well ranged, of middling size, pure white, and stand slightly apart. A denture of this sort is more easily- brushed, and kept more thoroughly clean. Decay will soon occur in the teeth which are very close, both from their pressure together, and rubbing on each other at the side, in the constant act of mastication. Some suppose, that as nutrition is supplied to the teeth like the other organs of the body, those which are too close set spoil at the points where it is interrupted by pressure. There is a very absurd popular tiincy, that the teeth infect each other. When the denture is not quite regular, or, when well formed, the teeth as it were crush together, one or more of the