A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell.

  • Eskell, Frederick A.
Date:
1862
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Credit: A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the natural consequences of such neglect, they would, in all probability, speedily adopt an opposite course. They are these:—First, ex* tensive inflammation, indicating the unhealthy state of the mouth generally ; and, secondly, a gradual loosening of the teeth, which fre- quently ends in the successive loss of the whole of them, the accumulation insinuating itself by degrees between the teeth and the gums, and thus destroying that connexion which is necessary to their support. Whenever this concretion has been suffered to accumulate, and it will be found in most cases where the regular cleaning of the teeth is omitted, scaling the teeth should be immediately, and in the first instance, resorted to. It will be in vain to expect that without this any cleaning can bring back the teeth to a proper state, but with it the best results may be expected. Many persons, from their extreme sensitive- ness, are reluctant to adopt this method; and, entirely from the fear of having to undergo wliat they have been accustomed to consider an opera- tion, continue to deprive themselves of the comfort of clean teeth, and to incur the hazard of perhaps becoming almost toothless at a com- paratively early age. This is a totally groundless fear; the cleaning the teeth with instruments