A guide for the proper treatment of the teeth : with a view to their preservation: containing a popular explanation of their structure and appendages, with directions for the management of them in health, and treatment in disease, together with observations on the best means of replacing them when lost / by W. Kencely Bridgman.

Date:
1846
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Credit: A guide for the proper treatment of the teeth : with a view to their preservation: containing a popular explanation of their structure and appendages, with directions for the management of them in health, and treatment in disease, together with observations on the best means of replacing them when lost / by W. Kencely Bridgman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    behind the upper* by an action resembling that of a pair of shears or scissors, has given rise to the name, incisors, or cutting teeth. Immediately beyond these stand the cus- pids, or canine teeth; termed, in the upper jaw, eye teeth. Their principal office is that of tearing such portions of food as are of too tough or fibrous a texture to be cut by the incisors. Next in order are the Bicuspids, or small grinders; of which there are two on each side ui either jaw, eight in all; and with them com- mences the double ridge. The division of their upper surface, by a transverse channel, into two points or cuspids, has given them the name bi- cuspid, or two-pointed. This formation limits the approach of the jaws in closing; for the point of one tooth rests in the corresponding depression of that opposite ;t were it not for which, the incisors and cuspids might pass each other till their edges were met by the gums. The Molars, or large grinders, are the great teeth situate at the back of the mouth, * riate 3, fig. i. t Plate 3, fig. ii.