Opinions on the causes and effects of diseases in the teeth and gums, with practical observations on the devastating consequences of their origin, as ascribable to lateral pressure ... in palliation of which, are submitted means of cure without extraction: interspersed with ... suggestions for the improvement & preservation of the masticating system / By Charles Bew.

  • Bew, Charles.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Opinions on the causes and effects of diseases in the teeth and gums, with practical observations on the devastating consequences of their origin, as ascribable to lateral pressure ... in palliation of which, are submitted means of cure without extraction: interspersed with ... suggestions for the improvement & preservation of the masticating system / By Charles Bew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contact for which they were designed by Nature ; beyond which they are vulnerable and sensible of injury, as will be seen in succeeding pages,— (See Plate II). CHANGE. . From seven to eight years of age is stated as the usual time when change is commenced be- tween the primary and permanent teeth ; but this theory is so accompanied with variety in the practice, that it is scarcely safe to affix any time, and if we do, we shall find that we build on a false foundation. This, I trust, will be rendered apparent by detail and demonstration, by the jaws of a child whose skeleton I accidentally met with in L’Ecole de Medicine at Paris. | _In children of six years, I have seen the pri- ‘Mary incisors of the lower jaw giving place to those of the permanent; while in others approach- ing to nine, I have seen them still in their places, though other lateral changes had gone on in due course, rendered still more remarkable by the