Our teeth, how built up, how destroyed, how preserved / described and illustrated by R. Denison Pedley, and Frank Harrison.

  • Pedley, Richard Denison.
Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Our teeth, how built up, how destroyed, how preserved / described and illustrated by R. Denison Pedley, and Frank Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE This book is written and illustrated for all who take an interest in their own health and in the welfare of the community. So prevalent is disease of teeth in children that the public have come to regard it as a normal condition for every child to have one or more carious teeth. This is an erroneous impression. A child can no more be regarded as normal who Tias carious teeth than if he had pulmonary consumption. This book seeks to explain, what is unknown to the majority of educated men and women, viz.: the causes of •dental disisases, the means of preventing them, their effects, and the need for their rational treatment. If it be necessary to justify the publication of such a work, the justification is comprised in the following facts:— 1. Of all diseases among civilized communities, dental diseases are the most prevalent. 2. More than three thousand men were invalided home during the late Boer War, on account of defective teeth. 3. More than eight hundred out of every thousand children in the United Kingdom are suffering in one form or another from diseased or defective teeth. Much has been done for the control and prevention of ■dental diseases during the past decade. The teeth of the .soldier and the sailor are no longer entirely neglected; and the teeth of the children of the poor are receiving in some small measure the regular attention which they so much need.