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 nerve comes to be exposed ; and even then, it should not be considered too late to attempt the cure. A tooth ought never to be thrown away upon slight grounds. One who, with indifference, permits the inroads of disease to gain upon the back teeth, and then gets them extracted to be free from pain, will in a few years lose them all, and the fore teeth of the upper jaw will soon follow'. All this can be avoided, although disease may have commenced. DISEASES OF THE TEETH. Another great cause of the diseases of the teeth, and which no person altogether escapes, is the collection of what is called tartarous matter. The tarter is secreted from the juices of the mouth, and incrusts the teeth as stalactites do caves. It first attaches itself to the parts of the teeth not exposed to friction in masticating the food, and gradually gaining ground, it covers them in some instances all over; but this can only take place when a person, in long continued illness, has been unable to masticate solids, from