The history and treatment of the diseases of the teeth, the gums, and the alveolar processes, with the operations which they respectively require. To which are added, observations on other diseases of the mouth, and on the mode of fixing artificial teeth / by Joseph Fox.

Date:
1806
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Credit: The history and treatment of the diseases of the teeth, the gums, and the alveolar processes, with the operations which they respectively require. To which are added, observations on other diseases of the mouth, and on the mode of fixing artificial teeth / by Joseph Fox. 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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    sockets, whereby the attachment of the periosteum is destroyed, and the stump becomes an extraneous body, causing great in- flammation in the socket and the gums, which often terminates in suppuration. It very frequently happens, when a tooth has become so decayed as to leave only the stumps, that nature, as if conscious they were no longer useful, makes an effort to thrust them out; the socket gradually closes at the bottom, and thus the stumps are protruded, until they only adhere to the gum, when they become loose, and occasion soreness and slight inflammation. The attachment being very weak, they are with great ease taken away*. The cause of caries has not been satisfactorily explained, from the structure of the teeth not having been duly considered. Mr. Hunter says, “ It does not arise from external injury, or from menstrua, which have a power of dissolving part of a tooth; but we may reasonably suppose that it is a disease arising originally in the tooth itself.” Yet, although he went thus far, he never formed a correct idea of the manner in which the disease must originate.