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Dentistry

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Images from the collections

Images about Dentistry

61 images from works
  • A mother and her five delighted children turned away from their dentist's at Easter because he has toothache. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1874.
  • M0013431: Upper and lower denture, 19th century.
  • A dentist encounters a large, violent patient. Reproduction of a drawing by A. Wallis Mills, 1920.
  • Recherches et observations sur toutes les parties de l'art du dentiste / Par M. Bourdet.
  • Interior of a dentist's surgery with animal participants. Reproduction of a coloured wood engraving.
  • M0015704: Etruscan prosthetic appliance intended to avoid the bad effects of convergence, or, perhaps to support a purely ornamental artificial substitute
  • A street tooth-drawer on his stall extracting a tooth from a patient. Wood engraving after C. Fripp (?).
  • Eastman Dental Hospital, London: view of the entrance hall. Process print, 1926.
  • 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 German military dentist pulls a tooth from an agonised soldier. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1892.

Works from the collections

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    A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell.

    Eskell, Frederick A. | Date: 1862
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    • Online

    Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston.

    Grayston, William Cass. | Date: 1904
    • Journals

    Deutsche Zahn-, Mund-, und Kieferheilkunde mit Zentralblatt für die gesamte Zahn-, Mund-, und Kieferheilkunde.

    • Books

    Elementary and dental radiography / by Howard Riley Raper ; with 354 illustrations.

    Raper, Howard Riley, 1886-1978. | Date: 1913
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    Dental health.

Related topics

History of Dentistry
Tooth
Dentures
Oral Health
Hygiene
Oral Hygiene
Tooth Diseases
Anesthesia, Intravenous
United Kingdom
Dental Equipment

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