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Dentistry - Practice

Images

  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.
  • A dentist asks an old patient how long his tooth has been hurting him, the patient replies twenty years. Reproduction of a drawing after B. Thomas, 1931.
  • A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.
  • A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Coloured etching after H.W. Bunbury.
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    A dentist trying to persuade a little boy that he is not going to hurt him, the child is not convinced. Reproduction after a drawing by E.H. Shepard, 1925.

    Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976. | Date: 1925 | Reference: 15443i
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    A dentist (Uncle Sam) about to extract a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhem II); representing America's successful involvement in the First world war. Pen drawing by P. Forbes-Robertson, 1918.

    Forbes-Robertson, Philippe. | Date: 1918 | Reference: 15814i
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    An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.

    | Date: 1789 | Reference: 16585i
    • Books

    Electro-radiographic diagnosis : a book on the electric test for pulp vitality, giving the technic of its use in detail and submitting clinical evidence of its absolute necessity to dental diagnosis / by Howard Riley Raper.

    Raper, Howard Riley, 1886-1978. | Date: 1921
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    A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth after extracting it from a patient, who is spitting blood out of the window. Coloured lithograph by J.A.(?). Pecht, 1836, after G. Dou, 1672.

    Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675. | Date: 1836 | Reference: 16454i
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