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Dental caries - Prevention

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Dental Care
Dental Caries
Prevention
Preventive dentistry

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  • A girl eating sweets and looking at a note warning of "holes ahead", referring to the danger of dental caries. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

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    Left, an apple, in colour; right, an old instrument for extracting teeth, in black and white; representing the benefits of prevention of tooth decay. Colour lithograph, 196-.

    | Date: [between 1960 and 1969?] | Reference: 659521i
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    The art of preventing the loss of the teeth, familiarly explained : also, an improved system of supplying their deficiencies and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth renovator; accompanied with testimonials from their Majesties' physicians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott.

    Scott, Joseph (Dentist) | Date: 1833
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    The cause and prevention of decay in teeth : an investigation into the causes of the prevalence of dental caries : to which are appended some suggestions on its prevention / by J. Sim Wallace.

    Wallace, J. Sim (James Sim), 1869-1951. | Date: 1900
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    A girl eating sweets and looking at a note warning of "holes ahead", referring to the danger of dental caries. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

    Mount, Reginald. | Reference: 22674i
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    The effect of lactoperoxidase-thiocyanate-hydrogen peroxide on the metabolism of cariogenic micro-organisms in vitro and in the oral cavity : Proefschrift / door Hendrik Hoogendoorn.

    Hoogendoorn, Hendrik. | Date: 1974

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