Guide to Sound Teeth, or a Popular Treatise on the Teeth; Illustrating the Whole Judicious Management of These Organs from Infancy to Old Age (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...I have lately been removing tin pluggings, (the juices of the mouth having oxidated and dissolved away the metal, so as to expose the teeth to decay ) from teeth which I plugged more than ten and fifteen years ago, for the purpose of re-stopping with gold, and have in almost every instance, found the bone of the teeth at the bottom of the pluggings, perfectly sound and protected from decay."--J. R. Spooner, (of Montreal, ) 1833. "Plugging of the teeth, if properly done is one of the most useful operations in dental surgery. "If well done the preservation of the tooth will be in almost every instance complete."--Fitch on the Teeth, page 378. "A gentleman has just paid me a visit who has been my patient since the age of eight. During one of his vacations I saw some incipient disease and stopped it: twenty years have elapsed, yet I found the same old stopping which I had insert ed in one of the large double upper permanent teeth, and also in one of the large double under teeth. "In 1783, applied to me James Russel, Esq. On examining his mouth, 1 discovered considerable decay in one of hi9 large double under teeth, and after cleansitlg out the cavity, I plugged it. Mr. Russel lately informed me that the same stopping and tooth remain perfect and firm to this day, (1825.) "I have no hesitation in affirming this to be one of the most important and useful operations that can be performed."--Sigmond. "The author had lately an opportunity of curing and afterwards plugging with gold a carious and tender tooth, for one of our most celebrated professors of music; a cavity in the other side of which tooth had been successfully stopped, thirty-six years before, by the father of the celebrated Talma. He is also acquainted with t...