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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    rSE IN ARTICULATION. ‘23 their functions sufficiently ;—clean, that they may not mingle foreign and unwholesome matter with our food ;—and free from canes, that our meals may not be interrupted by pain, arising from the heat and pressure of the food into the tender parts. As we often know things only by comparison, the awkward, tedious, and inefficient masticatory efforts of an edentulous person give a favourable im- pression of our obligations to a good set of these organs. The teeth serve a secondary purpose, by assisting in the articulation of the voice ; and if any vacancy occur in the front of the mouth by the depredation of time or disease, the pronunciation of words is seriously impaired, and the harmony of the voice broken. It is evidently out of the power of any one to pronounce the dental letters of a language whilst the front teeth are imperfect or awanting. Players on wind instruments find the fore-teeth of essential service; and by the flute-player, par excellence, tlicy arc indispen-